Re:Customers jumping ship? (Score 1)

Where are the angered masses?

Apparently the angered masses are Sprint customers. From accounts I read on the Nanog list and elsewhere, it sounds like there are more single-homed Sprint customers (including every Sprint PCS wireless subscriber) that wanted to get to sites hosted on Cogent than the other way around. Or they complained louder, anyway. You can talk about peering traffic ratios day and night, but the fact is that if Sprint customers want access to data that's on Cogent more than the other way around, then the peering was benefitting Sprint more than Cogent regardless of volume of data and Sprint should have kept their mouths shut. I think Sprint mis-handled this no matter how you look at it. If they filed suit against Cogent in September, then they should have let the courts handle it and not escallated the situation while it was in litigation. Since they have chosen to focus primarily on their wireless services including many PCS subscribers single-homed to their own network, they should be more careful about de-peering anyone, for any reason. By the way, I'm a Cogent customer and no way am I looking to leave them. I agree with their actions. Also, Cogent makes it very easy to multihome between them and another provider and practically encourages you to do so. I am not a Sprint customer, so I don't know, but I bet their sales line is more like "we are all you need".