North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Level3 tries cell-phone style billing scam on customers
Hoping for a company which will put ethics above profit is like looking for an honest politician. They're extremely rare. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:28:47PM -0400, Jamie A Lawrence wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: > > >Isn't malicious, just not very ethical. Having been on the recieving > >end a few times.. you don't always know it is happening. > > I'm not sure that's a useful distinction. I strongly doubt any vendor > has actual malice towards me (modulo some people I've pissed off at > times in panics). Ethics are what I hope for from partners, try to > demonstrate, and it is proven over time. > > That said, inventing random fees, hiding them as "taxes" or "federally > mandated something or other", and seeing what sticks to the wall in > order to get that tiny percent profit boost is not going to make any > friends in a network community. It works much better with cell > customers or unaware bean counters, but netops folks are going to see > it. L3 have given me reason to not like them in the past, and this is > just more of the same. The problem is that the big boys seem to be > racing to the bottom, so there isn't anyone better to which to defect. --- Wayne Bouchard [email protected] Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
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