said by tkdslr: Little known to many is the Clayton Anti-trust act..
It covers anti-competitive actions in general.
Note: Monopoly status is not a requirement to invoke the Clayton Anti-trust act.
From what I hear..
Level-3 has taken this disconnection issue a step further. (It's one thing to no longer offer transit across a ones network. It's quite a different story to BLOCK access to a group of a competitor's customers all together.)
It seams that Level 3 is still advertising some erroneous BGP routes to Covad and then dead ending them. (I.E. Reports of unreachable websites, traffic which would be normally be rerouted through one of the NAP's.)
Additionally they're blocking Level 3 customers from reaching Covad customers and vice-a-versa.
Both are criminal anti-competitive acts which damage Covad and BOTH companies customers. I.E. Level 3 is committing a criminal act by defrauding it's own customers and blocking their access to Covad based websites. As Level 3 has sold it's customers Internet access, both directions, to the internet as a WHOLE, not just portions of it.
If I were Covad, I would present this to a federal judge and slap an injunction on LEVEL 3 pronto.
