[79821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vest)
Fri Apr 15 14:24:08 2005
In-Reply-To: <426003AE.7060404@init7.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Tom Vest <tvest@pch.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:23:09 -0400
To: Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler@init7.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 15, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Fredy Kuenzler wrote:
>
> Paul Vixie wrote:
> > in other words, sometimes it's better to take pain in a "lump sum"
> > than on the "time payment plan." if that's what cogent's trying to
> > do, they've got my support. if on the other hand cogent is, as
> > accused here today, dumping transit at below cost, then may they rot
> > in hell. (could i say that simpler?)
>
> I'm not sure about the US price war, I just can say that I've seen an
> offer of AS174 in Switzerland which is 38% of the price of AS1239 we
> currently pay (same CDR). I'm not sure if ths already justifies hell,
> but at least purgatory ;-)
Does that imply that 1239 has a better line on what "actually costs"
are, or else sets those costs for other operators?
Tom
