[108855] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sprint / Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Epstein)
Thu Oct 30 23:53:59 2008
From: "Randy Epstein" <repstein@chello.at>
To: "'Brandon Galbraith'" <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>,
"'Paul Fleming'" <paul.f@hostdime.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:53:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: <366100670810302041o4f6e1de5v17ed08f1d02a2db2@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>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
