WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 DC-Cogent-Sprint-Law
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On October 30 at 4:30 pm
Sprint-Nextel severed its Internet connection to Cogent thereby partitioning
the Internet. It is no longer possible for many Sprint customers and Cogent
customers to directly communicate across the Internet. Sprint did so in
violation of a contractual obligation to exchange Internet traffic with Cogent
on a settlement free peering basis. Sprint and Cogent are engaged in
litigation over this matter. Cogent regrets that Sprint chose to take this
unilateral action rather than await a determination by the court as to the
rights of the parties. Cogent remains ready to reestablish, on the same
settlement free basis as previously existed, the connections that Sprint has
severed.
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In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides service,
Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is unable to
connect to Cogent's customers a free 100 megabit per second connection to the
Internet for as long as Sprint continues to keep this partitioning of the
Internet in place. Unfortunately, there is no way that Cogent can do the same
for the wireless customers of Sprint-Nextel.
All other major wireless carriers have full connectivity to Cogent and are
unaffected by this event.
About Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications (Nasdaq: CCOI) is a multinational, Tier 1
facilities-based ISP, operating one of the largest capacity IP networks in
existence with lit capacities ranging from 80 to 240 Gigabits per second.
Cogent specializes in providing businesses with high speed Internet access and
point-to-point transport services. Cogent's facilities-based, all-optical IP
network backbone provides IP services in over 110 markets located in North
America and Europe.
Since Cogent's inception, Cogent has unleashed the benefits of IP
technology, building one of the largest and highest capacity IP networks in
existence. This network enables Cogent to offer large bandwidth connections
at highly competitive prices. Cogent also offers superior customer support by
virtue of its end-to-end control of service delivery and network monitoring.
Cogent Communications is headquartered at 1015 31st Street, NW,
Washington, D.C. 20007. For more information, visit www.cogentco.com. Cogent
Communications can be reached in the United States at (202) 295-4200 or via
email at info@cogentco.com.
Information in this release may involve expectations, beliefs, plans,
intentions or strategies regarding the future. These forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements
included in this release are based upon information available to Cogent
Communications Group, Inc. as of the date of the release, and we assume no
obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. The statements in
this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could
differ materially from our current expectations. Numerous factors could cause
or contribute to such differences. Some of the factors and risks associated
with our business are discussed in Cogent's registration statements filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission and in its other reports filed from
time to time with the SEC.
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