[53391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: C&W east coast flap this afternoon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Ellifson)
Wed Nov 13 15:24:50 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:22:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Andy Ellifson <andy@ellifson.com>
Reply-To: andy@ellifson.com
To: Jonathan Disher <jdisher@parad.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211131121270.11452-100000@pasiphae>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
C&W is moving any customers that are not directly connected to a C&W
owned node to New Edge. I am a C&W T-1 Customer in the Phoenix, AZ
market on the N3 network and we will not be moving anywhere.
--- Jonathan Disher <jdisher@parad.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Peter Salus wrote:
>
> > C&W is divesting itself of a lot of "real estate" these
> > days. It struck a deal with Primus concerning its
> > voice customers (last week), now its DSL customers to
> > New Edge.
>
> New Edge is also getting their non-enterprise (i.e. T1, frac DS3)
> customers. We got our first strong-arm letter on October 11th
> threatening
> disconnection if we didn't sign a migration authorization. Yesterday
> we
> got notice that our T1's get shut off on December 31st.
>
> > Moreover, the BBC reports today that C&W is cutting 3500 jobs
> > worldwide and "also announced heavy losses." C&W announced
> > that it was cutting 23 of its 42 "data centres around the
> > world."
> >
> > (The losses this past year exceed $6.5 Billion.)
>
> This doesn't surprise me. Exodus lost their shirts buying
> GlobalCenter.
> Then C&W bought Exodus. Granted, it's not the only reason for losing
> money. But it's undoubtedly a big contributor.
>
> -j
>
>
