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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Deepak Jain wrote: > But if you are looking for Level 3 to make any sense, you are going to > be waiting a long, long, long time with the rest of us. > > They have never successfully "sold" much in their brief history. They > have successfully acquired lots, and lots, and lots of revenue and > then > burned it off fabulously quickly. Yea, we were a Telcove customer and recently talked to our new Level3 salesperson (200 miles away). He basically told us they wouldn't be selling us anything new in the future (at any price) but it probably wouldn't matter because they would also be "rerating" our colo charges too. This in a datacenter that is at least 1/2 empty. It was clear from the conversation that he never considered for a moment that we might actually pay the new rate. He just assumed we were gone as soon as it happened. Obviously I don't have a business degree because I don't understand the business model of buying up business and then going out of your way to chase off their customers. The Level3 higher ups must see something I don't. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Owen ~ Garden City (620) 275-1900 ~ Lottery (noun): President ~ Wichita (316) 858-3000 ~ A stupidity tax Hubris Communications Inc www.hubris.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Public Key: http://home.hubris.net/owenc/pgpkey.txt Comment: Public Key ID: 0xB513D9DD iEYEARECAAYFAkgXLCwACgkQElUlCLUT2d3G7wCfWsTDKzqh3GqQZ/8StrFc1ZKc OoQAn0c/PA3s942QyHzQd3aSX+Of74yI =sJSy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
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