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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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Re: Just the beginging
said by flycuban  :I see no point in this merger with Bellsouth, Cingular, SBC. This was supposed to lower prices? And now that at&t is in the position to do whatever they want - the smaller ISP's that use at&t for wholesale DSL service are really going to get screwed.
What tickles me to death is that Comcast uses at&t as there main backbone internet provider.... Actually, Comcast doesn't - ANYMORE. They built their own fiber backbone and mostly just peer to AT&T like they do with many other backbone providers.
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flycuban
join:2005-04-25
Homestead, FL
| 99.999% of there peer goes to at&t... Just funny that they use there competitor for there main transit peering...They complain about at&t, but they use them on the back end. You would think they would use level 3 or some other company and not use at&t at all. Go Figure! |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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| said by flycuban :99.999% of there peer goes to at&t... Just funny that they use there competitor for there main transit peering...They complain about at&t, but they use them on the back end. You would think they would use level 3 or some other company and not use at&t at all. Go Figure! They do it the same reason why my company uses it. When you request multiple pops from them it is much cheaper to get connections out all over the place. Main issue is when they upgrade core routers and they take a dive , it brings down the whole network.
AT&T is just cheaper if you want diverse pops. I wish Verizon would do something to lower their diverse pop prices. I hate seeing my work traffic all going over at&t , I want to see diversity.
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
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The AT&T loop price hike is for their last mile service in the 13-state legacy SBC region. It should only affect DSL prices related to the DSLAM and ATM networks for at&t Yahoo! HSI subscribers. There should be no impact on the ILEC DSL prices in AT&T Southeast (the former Bellsouth FastAccess, which is now called, "AT&T FastAccess), or the reselling of CLEC services outside of the AT&T ILEC footprint (AT&T Worldnet DSL Service, which resells Covad connections; and their prices are controlled by the regional ILECs serving Covad). Nor should it directly impact the AT&T Tier 1 backbone (AT&T Worldnet Services, or ATTW), which provides transit to Comcast in Florida.
Do remember, before AT&T bought Bellsouth, SBC bought AT&T. The only thing SBC changed was the name of the company; management is still the same as it was under SBC.
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