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Category: Technology Author : Steven Hodson Posted: October 31, 2008
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So this is what corporate Net Neutrality looks like


One of the big arguments around the government stepping in to enforce a real net neutrality is because the telecoms and cable co’s seem to have a different idea of what this concept means. This has been made quite apparent today in the way that Sprint has stopped routing traffic from Cogent because of some legal dispute. So in effect Sprint customers cannot reach Cogent customers or the other way around. The example Jesse Robbins used over at O’Reilly Radar was “The effect is similar to what would happen if Sprint were to block voice phone calls to AT&T customers.”

Here’s a graph showing the outage

So much for net neutrality

Yup we have a stable access to the wonders of the web and the future of cloud computing. Right.











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One Archived Response to “ So this is what corporate Net Neutrality looks like ”

  1. Me
    Nov 2, 2008

    I'm currently on a Sprint T-1 and some of my customers use Cogent. You know what that means? Hospitals can't get patient information that I'm storing for them. People might die. No notice from Sprint to me either, they just waited for me to call. I've already taken steps to switch to a fiber line with a competitor. Sprint's Business Services Agreement states “Trust” as one of their top priorities. I have no trust anymore.