[50312] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS286 effectively no more..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Thu Jul 25 05:39:45 2002
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:38:50 +0200
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Reply-To: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020725091755.15B183F06C@equinox.DOMINO.ORG>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> Uhm, how many pan-European _fiber_ owners is there? Not that many. Most
>> of that over capacity was bought from KQ in Europe...
>
> COLT, Telia, Dynergy, BT Ignite [I think], Level 3, LDcom, others.
> KQ was excellent at marketing themselves as the only company who
> had pan-European fibre but the reality is far different.
Well, several of the companies you mention above where actually large
customers of KQ. Although you are right in that they had pices of the
network themselves. I agree with you that KQ marketing was a stroy in
itslef, but for pan-European fiber assets, there are very few own it all.
- kurtis -
