Re: Sprint / Cogent

* Marshall Eubanks · * Fri Oct 31 09:49:38 2008

On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
The most interesting part of the press release to me is:

In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides
service,

Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is
unable to

connect to Cogent's customers a free 100 megabit per second
connection to

the Internet for as long as Sprint continues to keep this
partitioning of

the Internet in place. Unfortunately, there is no way that Cogent
can do

the same for the wireless customers of Sprint-Nextel.

This wasn't the first time Cogent offered something similar. They
did the

same thing when Level3 depeered them.

And they'll do it to others in future peering spats. It's just a
bullying tactic - entertaining if you're on the sideline; irritating
if you're Sprint.

I would regard this as a good sales tactic. I don't see bullying.
Regards
Marshall

Cogent reminds me of Ethan Coen's poem, which starts:
	The loudest has the final say,
	The wanton win, the rash hold sway,
	The realist's rules of order say
	The drunken driver has the right of way.
Nick