And while the parent company owns Nextgen, Ferguson said the offering really does stand on its own merits.

Nextgen general manager Peter Harrison said the VPLS service allows customers to control routing and most configuration options.

He said this is an important shift in moving data management control from the carrier to the customer.

"As it is an Ethernet service with feature bundling we can offer uncongested, unlimited national data usage as standard, end to end QoS and also include multiple VLAN's; in most cases as many as the customer can practically use," Harrison said.

The introduction of VPLS in Australia will eventually force the major carriers to introduce similar offerings, he added.