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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
Sean Donelan wrote: | Sprint kept the filters on for years afterwards. It may have taken | the clueless salespeople a few years, but they eventually did figure out | how to recite the magic words "buy your circuit from sprint and you | won't have problems with filters" was a way to win a sale. "Thank you even more clueless competitors." | And who could forget the popular "Don't buy a circuit from small ISP, because | they won't be able to get past the Internet filters." I went through | a half-dozen Sprint sales people in different parts of the country, | and by 1996 or so they all had the spiel down pat. Wouldn't it have been easier for small ISP to just aggregate? I mean, /19s got through after all! The ONLY reason this became a competitive advantage for Sprint was because it's COMPETITORS didn't have the brains to impose a similar filter. Honestly, nobody anticipated they'd be so stupid, but good luck is good luck.... Sean. (who had left by the time of "a few years")
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