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| Conformity It's amazing that so many of you are quick to justify the blame with Cogent.
The reason for any of these companies' existence, is and will always be one thing, PROFIT, TERRITORY, and QUANTITY.
How else do you beat a company, willing to take less profit, to offer a lower price, to gain a vast majority of consumers?
BLACK BALL
I'd do it, you'd do it too, most would if you saw the amount of cash flow these companies have seen. obviously, letting go of a large cash flow is just too much to handle, so what's the next best thing? Keep your cash flow, and destroy the competition.
CAPITALISM
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| Agreed. Major telcos have kept business clients paying huge costs even as their cost to provide the services from a Capex and CPE point of view has decreased substantially. I've had clients who wanted to purchase metro lambdas from their telco ISP so they could link to Cogent and peer with some allied businesses that also bought bandwidth at the same POP, with then intent of dropping their telco DS-3/OC1. Of course, the telco sabotaged the things with massive delays, engineering costs and painful technical problems, so the municipal fiber company was used and we're happy today.
The Uni I work for has several hundred Mbps with cogent and they are great VALUE. For what we pay them today, we got about 50Mbps 2.5 years ago. And small de-peering doesn't matter too much because we already have a peer fabric through the academic networks like Internet2, and deals with local ISP's. And then we also have a small backup link to another carrier to help us deal with problems like depeering or other hiccups. | |
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