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Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
From: randy () psg com (Randy Bush)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 96 05:09 PDT
Simple really. Sprint have a back-door deal with Cisco, either for money or favours (like getting bugs fixed :-) that means that they will only allow Cisco boxes to connect.
First, careful readers of this forum would have noticed that the head of SL Ops said right here that the restriction is non-op. Second, the reasons suppliers of service (in general, not just internet) ask customers to standardize on CPE is that experience has taught us that in 99% of the cases we are going to be dealing with the CPE. "Against our wills, Papa! Against our wills!" The solution I recommend is for the provider to charge T&M for dealing with CPE which they do not supply. When presented with the real costs, consumers tend toward wiser decisions. randy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Advice on dealing with Sprint Jon Green (Sep 25)
- Advice on dealing with Sprint Henry Kilmer (Sep 25)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Tom Eastgard (Sep 25)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Neil J. McRae (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Peter Galbavy (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Randy Bush (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Jon Green (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Randy Bush (Sep 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Rob Liebschutz (Sep 25)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Randy Bush (Sep 25)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Nathan Stratton (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Avi Freedman (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Joseph Malcolm (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Avi Freedman (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Joseph Malcolm (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Avi Freedman (Sep 26)
- Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint Joseph Malcolm (Sep 26)