End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?

Wed Sep 7 22:49:25 UTC 2022

Is there a hotline for those of us who have Cogent and Sprint….. sighs

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 6:17 PM Adam Thompson <athompson at merlin.mb.ca> wrote:

> Well, yes, that goes hand-in-hand with "...expects hefty charge".
> To me, this just says T-Mobile wants out of the POTS business at almost
> any cost.
> All those poor people stuck with Cogent now, I feel sorry for them!
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+athompson=merlin.mb.ca at nanog.org> On
> > Behalf Of Jawaid Bazyar
> > Sent: September 7, 2022 5:04 PM
> > To: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>; Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>
> > Cc: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> > Subject: Re: End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?
> >
> > $1 deals usually come with an operation in the red, or assumption of
> > significant debts.
> >
> > On 9/7/22, 2:55 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Dave Taht" <nanog-
> > bounces+jbazyar=verobroadband.com at nanog.org on behalf of
> > dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >     On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 1:48 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>
> > wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Are Sprint AS1239 and Cogent AS174 finally going to settle
> > their peering
> >     > disputes?
> >     >
> >     > T-Mobile sells legacy Sprint wireline business to Cogent for
> > $1, expects
> >     > hefty charge
> >     > https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cogent-communications-
> > acquire-t-mobiles-wireline-business-2022-09-07/
> >     >
> >     > 1,400 customers
> >     > 1,300 employees
> >     >
> >     > 19,000 long-haul route miles
> >     > 1,300 metro route miles
> >     > 16,800 leased route miles
> >
> >     That's a dollar well spent. It also explains the layoffs.
> >     >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     FQ World Domination pending:
> > https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/
> >     Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
> >
>
>
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