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
