Re: Cogent
"Patrick W. Gilmore" <[email protected]>
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On Aug 20, 2008, at 6:30 PM, JC Dill wrote: > Jawaid Bazyar wrote: >> Their network may be great, but customer service is important too. >> And playing chicken with other backbones in a way which disconnects >> your own customers from Level3, as Cogent did, to then provide no >> credit to your own customers but to instead offer free service for >> a year to Level3 customers, is indicative of management that >> doesn't give a *** about its own customers. > > Hmmm. I don't quite see it that way. IMHO, anyone who doesn't > understand that this type of policy is how Cogent keeps their costs > low and why your own price for their service is lower than the price > you would pay for the same service from other Tier 1s shouldn't be > buying Tier 1 bandwidth, or at least shouldn't be buying it from > Cogent. > > Cogent's game of playing "chicken" with the other Tier 1s keeps the > Tier 1s from forming a cabal of sorts (TINC not withstanding) which > would ultimately up the price for all of us. That would all make sense if Cogent were the lowest priced provider out there. Cogent's lowest price offer in 5 of the last 5 years has been higher than at least one "tier one" and frequently multiple tier ones. IOW: I call BS. -- TTFN, patrick -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list