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RE: Sprint / Cogent
From: Nick Hilliard <nick () inex ie>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:47:39 +0000
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.
And they'll do it to others in future peering spats. It's just a bullying tactic - entertaining if you're on the sideline; irritating if you're Sprint.
Cogent reminds me of Ethan Coen's poem, which starts: The loudest has the final say, The wanton win, the rash hold sway, The realist's rules of order say The drunken driver has the right of way. Nick
Current thread:
- Re: Sprint / Cogent, (continued)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Paul Fleming (Oct 30)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Brandon Galbraith (Oct 30)
- RE: Sprint / Cogent Randy Epstein (Oct 30)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Michal Krsek (Oct 30)
- Re: Depeering as an IPv6 driver (was: Re: Sprint / Cogent) Jared Mauch (Oct 30)
- Re: Depeering as an IPv6 driver (was: Re: Sprint / Cogent) Brandon Galbraith (Oct 30)
- Re: Depeering as an IPv6 driver Jack Bates (Oct 30)
- Re: Depeering as an IPv6 driver (was: Re: Sprint / Cogent) Carlos Friacas (Oct 31)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Justin Shore (Oct 31)
- RE: Sprint / Cogent Paul Stewart (Oct 31)
- RE: Sprint / Cogent Alex Rubenstein (Oct 31)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Larry Sheldon (Oct 31)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Larry Sheldon (Oct 31)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Jared Mauch (Oct 31)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Marshall Eubanks (Oct 31)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 31)
- Re: Sprint / Cogent Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Oct 31)