[20855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UU Net sales tactics?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis A. Destree)
Wed Oct 28 17:40:02 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:27:01 +0000 ( )
From: "Louis A. Destree" <destree@solstice.flash.net>
To: John Golovich <john@ciag.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00f001be0274$528592a0$140b73d1@laptop.ciag.net>
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, John Golovich wrote:
> Has anyone else received a phone call from a UUnet salesman out of the blue?
> It appears that he used the Boardwatch magazine, because he quoted me some
> information out of it about my company.
Funny you should mention this. I have a 45MB/s feed to UUNet in Dallas,
and have had for years. Probably a year ago I had a UUNet salesman call me
out of the blue saying he was now responsible for my account, and I should
be talking to him for all of my UUNet related business. However,
according to WorldCom, and more specifically my WorldCom sales rep, I was
still supposed to go through WorldCom for my UUNet dealings. Can you say
comi$$ion?
About two months back, I got a flyer from UUNet, with a new person
claiming to be my sales rep. Again, the WorldCom rep I have states she
should be our primary contact for UUNet business.
Personally, I think the UUNet feed I have is excellent, but it would be
nice to see a bit more UUNet-WorldCom coordination. It's leaving those of
us in the customer community confused.
Louis
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Louis A. Destree
Senior Network Engineer
FlashNet Communications
destree@flash.net
