[173041] in North American Network Operators' Group
provisioning (was: endless pissing about vz and netflux)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Jul 15 02:52:42 2014
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:52:31 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <91CFC483-ABA9-41E6-9123-C97C85BE1575@puck.nether.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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> I recall phoning AT&T once asking for 100m service at a commercial
> address and it took a swat-team of people on the phone to tell me they
> would be 4x/mo what I was paying.. I politely told them they were too
> expensive and to not schedule a 8 person conference call for a basic
> service level.
i remember calling a very large telco to order a ds3 (yes, it was a
while ago). they transferred me to engineering to see if they had
capacity. engineering told me to hang on, and then i heard a lot
of rustling of paper. i knew that even if i could get the circuit i
would not want it.
randy
