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As I stated before, please read the current 10Q. I believe I made it clear that Exodus has purchased transit in the past. I also made it very clear that it really isn't the issue. I *could* purchase transit. The question is will I? The "other" folks *could* purchase transit, but will they? Even if I did have transit, *would* I use it to allow BBN to disconnect? Rob > > Jerry, the most important paragraph followed a few lines later: > > "Many of the operators of the private peering interconnections are > competitors of the Company. Currently, ***the Company does not pay a fee > for many of these interconnections,*** and if these organizations were to > begin to charge the Company for utilizing these interconnections, or, in > the cases where the ***Company currently pays a fee,*** to increase the pricing > associated with utilizing these networks, the Company may be required to > identify alternative methods through which it can distribute its customers' > content." > > Exodus has certainly said or implied that they had universal no cost > interconnection? No? Or are we going on nuances here like the > interconnections are peering that is being paid for instead of transit and > so they really don't count??? > > The worldcom statement could be leased lines for their own backbone. True. > but do you think that they get no cost peering from UUNET? i honestly > don't know the answer. still I can't immagine generous john sidgemore > interconnecting them for free. > > what the paragraph that I cited again above says is that they pay for > multiple peering interconnections..... or at least they sure paid last > january. does anyone think free peering is getting easier to get? ergo > its a safe assumption that they pay now.....becuase if they somehow bucked > the trend how could they miss out on the pr value of saying so? > > > > > > > >gordon, > > > >for someone who claims to be a reporter, you are sometimes amazing. Buying > >leased circuit bandwidth from Worldcom or bozo the clown does not mean > >that that they are buying internet peering. You have no facts to prove > >anything you say, yet you content that people who do have facts are > >misrepresenting the truth. > > > >take a break, > >jerry > > *************************************************************************** > The COOK Report on Internet New Special Report: Building Internet > 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Infrastructure ($395) available. See > (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) http://www.cookreport.com/building.html > [email protected] Index to 6 years of COOK Report, how to > subscribe, exec summaries, special reports, gloss at http://www.cookreport.com > *************************************************************************** >
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