[147836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Well Lookie Here, Barracuda Networks tries to get me to fall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Dec 23 09:00:52 2011
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:59:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com>
> I guess the networking equivalent is --- you stop paying for your OC3
> with $BIG_TELCO for a few months, and you get it turned off, but for
> some reason the physical cabling isn't physically removed. A few months
> later, you decide you need an OC3 again and exclaim the unfairness of
> $BIG_TELCO informing you that a fee is required to re-install the OC3
> they haven't removed yet.
> How unfair right... many thousands of $$ just to flip a switch? One
> chose to go without service for a few months, therefore should get a
> lower total cost, based on the new renewal date, right?
Well, I strongly suspect that's a bad analogy: the thing they'd be collecting
for would be *the three months of unpaid bills on the circuit*. Possibly plus
a deposit to make sure you don't screw them again. But they might well not
charge you a new installation charge; I don't know that there's an industry
standard practice there, nor that we'd know about if it there was (people
who do that aren't much talking about it).
And, finally, I suspect that on a circuit the size of an OC-3, you'd be lucky
to get to be 30 days late on the payment; "a few" is generally between 3 and 5.
But in fact, while you'd be on the hook for the "few months" they let it run
while you weren't paying, you would almost certainly *not* owe them for the
"few months" after they shut it off, since they weren't providing you the
service then.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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