On 2008-11-03, at 13:15, Hamish MacEwan wrote:
Still pushing this intuitively credible nonsense. There isn't a single byte exchanged that wasn't either sent or requested by a customer. The asymmetry is a customer artifact (which Cogent can hardly be expected to remedy, except with, oh, of course, money) and Sprint should charge their customers appropriately, not attempt to extort fees from Cogent.
Extortion is nonsense. What you're seeing is two competitors leveraging their respective advantages and hoping for commercial gain. As far as "charge their customers appropriately" goes, I've had experience of various transit products from various people, and I would say to a large extent you get what you pay for. Oh, and choice is good. Joe