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RE: MCI refusing to turn up OC-3 due to katrina relief efforts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peering)
Wed Sep 21 16:44:44 2005
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:44:14 -0400
From: "Peering" <Peering@xspedius.com>
To: "Henry Linneweh" <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>,
"Drew Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I agree. We just turned up an OC3 with them the day before yesterday,
with no issues.
Diane Turley
Sr. Network Engineer
Xspedius Communications Co.
636-625-7178
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Henry Linneweh
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:40 PM
To: Drew Weaver; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: MCI refusing to turn up OC-3 due to katrina relief efforts?
that would be very uncharacteristic of MCI to do that,
and they do have a katria team down in that area
working on restoring all services.=20
Your client would know via his sales rep what the implementation team is
doing and pressures would be brought to deal with that kind of problem,
I think someone is clowning you
-Henry
--- Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> wrote:
>=20
> Howdy, has anyone heard of MCI putting orders on
> hold in order to help
> with the Katrina relief effort? We ordered an OC-3
> from them about 2
> months ago and they've missed the install deadline 4
> times now. The
> reseller we're working with said that they claim
> that they can't turn it
> up due to Katrina relief efforts. The local loop is
> installed and the
> port is connected, they just cant turn the order up.
>=20
> Has anyone else heard this or should I assume (as
> usual) the reseller is
> BS'ing me?
>=20
> -Drew
>=20
