[108866] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sprint / Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Fri Oct 31 07:48:12 2008
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:47:39 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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>>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
