RE: Sprint / Cogent

["Randy Epstein" <repstein () chello at>]

> The most interesting part of the press release to me is:

> In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides service,
> Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is unable to
> connect to Cogent's customers a free 100 megabit per second connection to
> the Internet for as long as Sprint continues to keep this partitioning of
> the Internet in place.  Unfortunately, there is no way that Cogent can do
> the same for the wireless customers of Sprint-Nextel.

This wasn't the first time Cogent offered something similar.  They did the
same thing when Level3 depeered them.

Randy