[AusNOG] NBNco: "Let's start competing with our customers!"

[Jonathan Brewer]

On 16 September 2015 at 21:20, <ausftth at mail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

I call this "making the best of a bad situation" & will add that the
concept has worked well for New Zealand.

Tail extensions & regulated backhaul have allowed small & specialist ISPs
to pay hefty premiums to get a few customers at a particular exchange,
while still making it attractive for the large players to build their own
backhaul.

-JB
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