[105234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: If bandwidth wasnt already cheap (!) enough ..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Jun 16 14:38:29 2008
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:37:46 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: James Blessing <james.blessing@entagroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <48562CB2.6090200@entagroup.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
IIRC, doesn't a three-year contract of this sort involve actually adding
*liabilities* to the books until the revenue is captured? I think this
may have more to do with run-rates or cutting attrition since so many
"allegedly" better networks are offering pricing at or below Cogent's
old/original pricing.
Disclaimer: Not a Cogent customer/investor.
DJ
James Blessing wrote:
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>>> Service providers who buy between one Gigabit and 10 gigabits will
>>> enjoy a
>>> three-year contract rate of $5 a meg, and those that consume a full 10
>>> gigabit port can pay as little as $4 a meg on a three-year contract."
>
> A cynic would say that they are trying to book the revenues to raise
> some finance...
>
> J
