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Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Wed Oct 5 11:57:29 2005

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:57:00 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CE9A7886-6F90-48EA-A9A6-08C216590D9B@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed Oct 05, 2005 at 11:50:52AM -0400, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> I opened a billing/support ticket with Cogent.   I'm not planning on  
> paying my bill or continuing the contract if they cannot provide full  
> BGP tables and full Internet transport (barring outages).   Luckily I  
> have 2 other providers so I can still reach Level 3.

We tried the same line with Level3 - and were told "Tough, we're not paying
service credit. The transit still works, just its coverage is slightly 
different".
 
> Maybe I can buy the new 'Cogent - it is almost the Internet' service  
> for less money.

Indeed, that's the natural next step.

Simon
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