[94569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Site Survey...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dwight A. Ernest)
Thu Jan 25 14:52:09 2007
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:49:55 -0500
From: "Dwight A. Ernest" <dwight@rnkcom.com>
To: Robert Sherrard <rob@robsherrard.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45B8FD35.3090906@robsherrard.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I don't see what "reasonable" has to do with it. If you don't like it,
and you have a choice, vote with your pocketbook by taking your business
elsewhere.
If you don't have a choice, and your carrier knows it, then you have
little recourse except where it might affect business elsewhere.
I would use whatever stick or carrot I could, but reasonableness only
rarely enters into carrier business ethics.
Robert Sherrard wrote:
>
> Is it unreasonable to ask a carrier to perform a site survey, before
> quoting out an install? I am looking to pull some fiber into a building
> that is off net, and I cannot get my potential carrier to perform a site
> survey.
>
> My reason for concern is that the NRC / install is 18k, and they have
> already conceded that the fiber is less than 40ft from my building, and
> that the install should be relativity easy (conduit / everything already
> in place). I am being quoted worse case scenario, and should the install
> not go as much as 18k, I still need to fork out 18k. I feel like I have
> a rep who is being greedy, and that I am subsidizing their business
> model for future tenants.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Rob
>
>
