Ausbbs will be offering NBN services through an unnamed wholesale aggregator and its local customer support will be done through another company.

"We are at a position where we can say we are commencing the build and are aiming to launch on a trial basis in August," Appel told ARN.

At the Communications Day Summit in Sydney last week, Internode managing director, Simon Hackett, said .

"... It is too late, in my view, to become national from scratch and if you do become national you will be doing it essentially by reselling one of the other four guys' products," he said. "But for regional players, they are perfectly sustainable.

While Appel understands where Hackett is coming from, he was optimistic about opportunities NBN presents for new national players like Ausbbs.