[108873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint / Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Oct 31 09:49:42 2008
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie>
In-Reply-To: <490AF05B.7000502@inex.ie>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:49:31 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>>> 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.
I would regard this as a good sales tactic. I don't see bullying.
Regards
Marshall
>
>
> 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
>
