[111126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP Unbundling circuits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Thu Jan 29 15:35:51 2009
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:35:37 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200901292014.n0TKEXtq037747@mainstreet.net>
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Mark Kent wrote:
> On a slightly related topic, a US-based colo outfit used by a company
> I work with wants a fee to disconnect power to the cage. The tenant
> had been there for years and, at contract renewal time, was lobbied
> hard ($$) by the colo company to reduce power consumption.
>
Did they mention a deinstall fee at this time?
> The tenant worked for a few months and freed up 20 power circuits.
> The colo then said that they had a disconnect fee for each power
> circuit.
>
> Now, I think a reasonable fee is $0. The colo wants considerably more.
> I won't bias you with the figure yet... please let me know what you
> think is reasonable, either by experience or just as a thought exercise.
>
I think a reasonable fee is whatever is set in their contract - which I
suspect is $0. You can't just tack on fees like this afterwards.
jc
