On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Chris Owen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Deepak Jain wrote: > >> But if you are looking for Level 3 to make any sense, you are going to >> be waiting a long, long, long time with the rest of us. >> >> They have never successfully "sold" much in their brief history. They >> have successfully acquired lots, and lots, and lots of revenue and >> then >> burned it off fabulously quickly. > > Yea, we were a Telcove customer and recently talked to our new Level3 > salesperson (200 miles away). He basically told us they wouldn't be > selling us anything new in the future (at any price) but it probably > wouldn't matter because they would also be "rerating" our colo charges > too. This in a datacenter that is at least 1/2 empty.
The Broadwing Norristown facility is perhaps 25% used....a lot of empty space there. I have no idea what they are thinking...maybe Level 3 has big plans for it, or wants it shut down, because it's hard to see how it's profitable at a utilization rate that low. > It was clear from the conversation that he never considered for a > moment that we might actually pay the new rate. He just assumed we > were gone as soon as it happened. Obviously I don't have a business > degree because I don't understand the business model of buying up > business and then going out of your way to chase off their customers. > The Level3 higher ups must see something I don't. This letter had the "director's" name, but no way to contact him. No phone number, no email address. I basically had to make several phone calls to find my rep, since my original BWing rep was long gone.> James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am ========================================================================= _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
