[AusNOG] Aus Industry Congratulations Email

[Skeeve Stevens]

All,

The list: https://www.ag.gov.au/NationalSecurity/
DataRetention/Documents/DRIGP-recipients.pdf

I am absolutely stunned by this list and how much people asked for - and
got.

Sure, there are people who needed the money to comply, but I think a lot of
people are taking advantage of the system and should be ashamed of
themselves for how much they asked for.

Yes, the government did a shit job, but this is community money - needed
for us to comply with a stupid law. Not a slush fund for people to build up
their business.

Universities - I don't understand. System Integrators - bullshit. VoIP
providers, you are are already logging call details - why do most of you
need anything?

If everyone IT integrator in the country claimed, we'd have over 2k-3k
applicants and no one getting much at all.

I think a lot of people are buying new networking equipment with these
funds. I am not sure the fund was designed to build the networks of ISPs.

Some of the massive requests are astounding and begs the question "WHAT are
people buying with it?"

I think the AG make all the applications public since they've made the
result public. We need context to some of these extremely excessive
allocations.

There is no jealousy here. There is a dozen of my customers on the list,
but all mostly realistic.

Those that say we should just move on have no respect for the stewardship
of these resources.

Bring on the flames.

---

Going through the list (Never heard of many of them):

- *Ace* - 294k - You are a small regional ISP... 294k?! C'mon, you need to
justify it.

- *Amaysim* - 69k - You are a big phone reseller - is this all you need?
#respect

- *APN* - 373k - Now Activ8me?  Regional ISP. You need to justify it.

- *Bluenet* - Aren't you just a VISP off RealWorld? 30k for what? (See
below)

- *Broadband Solutions*. Guys, Why 2.2million. You *REALLY* need to justify
that. Exetel, BigAir, M2, Vocus are all way less. Please explain

- *BT* - 4 applications? Really? Total $376k+ - Justify it.

- *CipherTel* - Regional and Remote WA. 439k... Justify it.

- *Cirrus Communications* - 18k. Your network is massive. Is that all you
really need? If so.. #respect

- *Cloud Comm* - Who are you? 236k

- *Comscentre* - 840k... C'mon really?  Justify it.

- *Connectivity IT* - 244k. Please Justify it Tom.

- *CountryTell* - 180k. Curious... seems a lot for a regional ISP. Please
explain

- *Curtin University* - 368k... I don't understand.

- *Easyweb Digital* - 404k. For what? Your website doesn't even say ISP,
and WiFi doesn't count. Please explain.

- *Firenet* - 169k - I think you are going to need to explain this.

- *First Focus* - 153k - But it doesn't even look like you are an ISP?
Please explain.

- *Frontier Networks* - 301k - It doesn't look like you'd need this much..
Please explain

- *GoPC* - 150k. Graeme? I don't get it. You will need to explain this. As
far as I know, you are not an ISP.

- *Griffith Uni* - 719k. Another Uni...

- *Interactive Gateway* - Who? You look like an integrator, not an ISP.
Please explain.

*- IP Voice & Data / Vonex* - 290k. You are mostly voice. Does it really
cost this much to log call data which you should already do?

- *M2* - 1.6M - OK you are huge, but aren't you part of Vocus now? Surely
you can use the same systems

*- Macquarie Telecom* - A lot less than I would have expected from someone
of your size. #respect

- *Message4U* - 1.2m - Ok, so you do a lot of texts... but so what? Please
explain

- *MikeIT / OpusV* - 106k - You don't seem to be an ISP. Please explain

- *Mobilizer* - 89k. Total bullshit. Anyone who has ever met Damon knows
this is a crock.

*- MyNetfone* - 3m. You guys are massive in voice. But 3 million?

- *Novatel* - 698k - Baby ISP with 1 or 2 routers... Does not justify this
much. Please explain.

- *Origin Net *- 249k - Seems excessive.. please explain

- *Pivotel* - 336k - You do Satellite services? That is a lot. Please
explain

- *Professional Data Kinetics* - 352k. You're based in Wagga doing NBN.
This is a lot. Please explain.

- *Radcomp / ITAUS / ITNQ* - 472k. Who? Please explain

- *RCOM / RNAS*. 316k. Who are you?  Please explain

- *Real World* - 787k/912k. Really Andrew? 2 piles of cash? You couldn't
use the same technology?  It is a hell of a lot of money for a network like
yours in comparison to many people out there. 1.7 million dollars. Almost
as much as Vocus. More than BigAir, 3 x Macquarie and *MORE* than TPG. You
need to seriously explain yourself here.

- *RMIT* - 680k. Uni again

- *SIS Group* - 191k. Luke? Seems like a lot. Please explain.

- *Spirit Telecom* - 187k. Seems like a lot. Please explain.

- *Tecala* - 316k. Who are you? Please explain.

- *Comverge* - 227k+78k. You are mostly wholesale/Layer2/builders. Why?
Please explain.  Why 2 applications?

*- Telstra* - 40m. OK, You are massive. But given who you are, don't you
already log most things required by the Drip? 40m seems like a lot of
money, even for you.

- *The Summit Group*. 1M. Greg, you are going to have to explain this.

- *Vibe* - 364k. Big links I know... but 364k

- *Uniscope* - Who?

*- Uniti - *Who?

- *More Universities*...  UTas 12k? Wow.

*- Vodafone *- 28m. 28 million for what? You already log the hell out of
everything - that is your job.  Even Optus only asked for 14m.

- *VostroNet* - 221k. Never heard of them.

- *YourFibre* - 147k. They don't even have a web presence I can find.



...Skeeve

*Skeeve Stevens - Founder & The Architect* - eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
Email: skeeve at eintellegonetworks.com ; Web: eintellegonetworks.com

Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; Skype: skeeve ; LinkedIn: /in/skeeve
<http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve> ; Expert360: Profile
<https://expert360.com/profile/d54a9> ; Keybase: https://keybase.io/skeeve
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20160905/a74ee9d5/attachment-0001.html>