Old Node was one of those rare companies where I actually believed they put their customers and employees before their bottom line. It's just TPG with different branding now.
(by the way, has anyone seen my orange watch?)
We'll see how being public keeps this up..
I particularly like that they've exposed some of the NBN troubleshooting tools to customers.
They also skipped over that "we'll provision more CVC capacity when we see it flatline for at least four hours a day" phase that most other retailers seemed to go through.
They don't quite have the same old school nerd appeal that Node had though. Things like free Usenet, games.on.net, unmetered downloads from the fairly well stocked mirror..