<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>He has to do that to show there is activity on the account otherwise another rep can challenge it.</div><div><br></div>Best regards<div>August Yang<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 5, 2022, at 4:20 PM, Dennis Burgess <dmburgess@linktechs.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif;">😊</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here is the e-mail:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Hey (redacted) ,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maybe there is a misunderstanding. (ISP’s name removed) is a cogent customer who we provide upstream to.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Would that be at all something that interests you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Eric Gogerty | Global Account Manager | AS 174<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cogent Communications | Minneapolis, MN (United States Of America)|<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cogentco.com/">www.cogentco.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contact: 612-217-5506| email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:egogerty@cogentco.com">egogerty@cogentco.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Internet, Unleashed!"<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><img width="112" height="32" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D8A8DE.E4164360" alt="LTI-Full_175px" style="width: 1.1666in; height: 0.3333in;"></span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dennis Burgess<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><br>Mikrotik :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Trainer, Network Associate, Routing Engineer, Wireless Engineer, Traffic Control Engineer, Inter-Networking Engineer, Security Engineer, Enterprise Wireless Engineer<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hurricane Electric:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">IPv6 Sage Level</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Cambium:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ePMP</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second Edition”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Link Technologies, Inc</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Office</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">: 314-735-0270 Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.linktechs.net/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">http://www.linktechs.net</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Create Wireless Coverage’s with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="x-msg://19/www.towercoverage.com"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">www.towercoverage.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Need MikroTik Cloud Management:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://cloud.linktechs.net/"><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://cloud.linktechs.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How did we do today?</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://app.customerthermometer.com/?template=log_feedback&hash=5badbac1&embed_data=dGVtcGVyYXR1cmVfaWQ9MSZ0aGVybW9tZXRlcl9pZD0xMTM1NjYmbnBzX3JhdGluZz0tMQ==&e=Anonymous&f=Dennis&l=Burgess&c=&c1=&c2=&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c7=&c8=&c9=&c10="><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" width="50" height="31" id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image002.png@01D8A8DE.E4164360" alt="Gold Star" style="width: 0.5208in; height: 0.3229in;"></span></a><a href="https://app.customerthermometer.com/?template=log_feedback&hash=675abe04&embed_data=dGVtcGVyYXR1cmVfaWQ9MiZ0aGVybW9tZXRlcl9pZD0xMTM1NjYmbnBzX3JhdGluZz0tMQ==&e=Anonymous&f=Dennis&l=Burgess&c=&c1=&c2=&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c7=&c8=&c9=&c10="><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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