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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Cogent getting involved in absolutely
obnoxious and shady sales tactics that they'll seemingly never
address or do anything about? Why I never<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/5/2022 4:20 PM, Dennis Burgess
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">So we just
got an email from cogent, we have told them time and time
again to stop calling and stop emailing. We tell them are
good on bandwidth and we don’t need any of their services..
They then sent us a e-mail stating that they saw us coming
though one of their customers networks from us, and figured
we would want to buy direct instead of going though one of
their customers. Yes COGENT stated this; well at least one
of their sales reps. Sounds underhanded, shady, and
unethical to me. Just figured I would post about it; see
if I am making a mountain out of a mole hill
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here is the
e-mail:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">"Hey
(redacted) ,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Maybe
there is a misunderstanding. (ISP’s name removed) is a
cogent customer who we provide upstream to.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">My
initial inquiry was to see if it makes sense for Link
Technologies to be utilizing our network instead of
through (ISP’s name removed). That way we could be a
direct network for you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Would
that be at all something that interests you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eric
Gogerty | Global Account Manager | AS 174<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cogent
Communications | Minneapolis, MN (United States Of
America)| <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cogentco.com">www.cogentco.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Contact:
612-217-5506| email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:egogerty@cogentco.com">egogerty@cogentco.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The
Internet, Unleashed!"<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dennis Burgess<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
Mikrotik : </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Trainer,
Network Associate, Routing Engineer, Wireless Engineer,
Traffic Control Engineer, Inter-Networking Engineer,
Security Engineer, Enterprise Wireless Engineer<span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hurricane Electric:
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style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Cambium:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Author of "Learn
RouterOS- Second Edition”
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style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Link Technologies,
Inc</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">
-- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services
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Jon Sands
MFI Labs
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