[AusNOG] NBNco: "Let's start competing with our customers!"
Skeeve Stevens
skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com
Wed Sep 16 21:50:33 EST 2015
Why do that NBNCo?... just go back to the original PoI design and make it
easier/cheaper rather than 7000 poi's... THAT is why it is expensive for
the smaller guys.... shebus.
C'mon... who is advising these guys... do we have a new decent Comms
Minister we can appear for sanity to?
...Skeeve
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:20 PM, <ausftth at mail.com> wrote:
> Not content with their monopoly position and the mess they made so far,
> the NBNco now wants to compete for POI backhaul with it's own customers too.
>
> "In a speech to the National Press Club today, Morrow said around 40 of
> the NBN's national 121 points of interconnect (PoI) are currently too
> expensive for smaller ISPs to reach.
>
> Morrow has accepted the NBN could have to play a role in forcing the hand
> of the market, or stepping up if it turns out no one else is willing to go
> to some locations."
>
> Now, I'm all for lower backhaul costs, but surely there would have been
> better ways to go about this than this sudden change of heart. It's like
> some bloke at the NBNco found an Econ 101 textbook, happened upon the
> definition of regulatory uncertainty and came up with the brilliant idea of
> field testing the concept.
>
> Source:
> http://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-wants-to-cut-access-costs-for-smaller-isps-409244
>
> Jared
>
>
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