[127462] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Contract negotiations advice?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimi Thompson)
Tue Jun 29 17:20:20 2010
From: Jimi Thompson <jimi.thompson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:20:10 -0500
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
First thing is to be an educated consumer. Know what going rates and sla s=
cost for a given service. Also check the rep of the vendor. I find that =
competitive bids work well. Unless your a gov or something you dont have t=
o take the lowest bid - take the best one. =20
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:32 AM
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Contract negotiations advice?
I am dealing with a large telecom which purchased the small telecom I
signed a contract with.
Despite signing only 1 contract with them, the two racks, and the
bandwidth which feeds 1 rack (I connect privately to the second rack at
no charge) all have different termination dates.
How signing one contract resulted in 3 different end of term dates,
months apart, I can't quite figure out.
Can anyone point me to a mailing list or discussion forum containing
advice on dealing with such issues? And the wider issue of negotiating
good rates with telecoms?
Cordially
Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick@zill.net
