RoadWarrior
join:2002-10-22
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| Level 3 trying to crush Cogent
This whole "squabble" is really about Level 3 trying to crush a competitor.
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Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer told Light Reading Wednesday that the real reason Level 3 clipped the peering connection last week is because it believes Cogent is pricing its Internet service at “below cost,” making it hard for Level 3 to compete.
As the article states: "In mid-September I got a phone call from a very senior person at Level 3, and in that telephone call they said, 'We’re going to cut you off if you guys don’t either pay us or reconsider your pricing strategy and raise prices,' ” Schaeffer says.
Cogent sells Internet access for around $10 per megabyte, according to the company, while the Level 3 rate is somewhere between $25 and $60 per megabyte.
All this is is one company wanting to crush the other one with no care for the customers of either company. |
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| said by RoadWarrior  :This whole "squabble" is really about Level 3 trying to crush a competitor. All this is is one company wanting to crush the other one with no care for the customers of either company. That is Cogent's take on it. But Level 3 and very few others agree with Cogent's assertions.
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The Way Out
join:2003-01-20 | reply to RoadWarrior
That's nice, it looks like you're buying into hype. Everything you're reading is Cogent spin. Read the previous 3 articles on DSLR about this subject and then take a guess at who's the bad guy. |
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Combat Chuck
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| said by The Way Out :That's nice, it looks like you're buying into hype. Everything you're reading is Cogent spin. But that's what Cogent wanted now isn't it. As I said previously no one cares who's actually at fault, all they know is level3 did something, now their internet doesn't work as well, therefore level3 is at fault.
If anything someone needs to look into just what Cogent did to prepare and if their lack of preparation was actually the planned response.
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