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

[Noel Butler]

On 17/09/2015 09:37, Paul Brooks wrote: 

> On 17/09/2015 7:56 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: 
> 
>> I am saying that while the CVC should be like $2.... if they aggregated their PoI's, you'd need a lot less because it would scale much much more and it would actually costs less.
> 
> Methinks you're confusing topology with charging model. If you negotiated your wholesale backhaul provider to just add up all the traffic on all the POI ports and charge you for the aggregate, rather than per physical port, it wouldn't matter how many actual POIs there were.
> 
> This whole mess also seems to hang on two assumptions:
> 1) every ISP needs to service the whole national footprint
> 2) every ISP needs to charge the same uniform retail price all over the footprint.
> 
> Are either of these true?

Of course they are - unless you want to be blasted into extinction 

1 - a necessity to compete/survive 

2 - a necessity to compete/survive 

I'm truly amazed someone on THIS list assuming they have any RSP
experience even asks such a question 

 
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