Well, yes, that goes hand-in-hand with "...expects hefty charge". To me, this just says T-Mobile wants out of the POTS business at almost any cost. All those poor people stuck with Cogent now, I feel sorry for them!
Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services MERLIN 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) https://www.merlin.mb.ca Chat with me on Teams: [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Jawaid Bazyar > Sent: September 7, 2022 5:04 PM > To: Dave Taht <[email protected]>; Sean Donelan <[email protected]> > Cc: NANOG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars? > > $1 deals usually come with an operation in the red, or assumption of > significant debts. > > On 9/7/22, 2:55 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Dave Taht" <nanog- > [email protected] on behalf of > [email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 1:48 PM Sean Donelan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Are Sprint AS1239 and Cogent AS174 finally going to settle > their peering > > disputes? > > > > T-Mobile sells legacy Sprint wireline business to Cogent for > $1, expects > > hefty charge > > https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cogent-communications- > acquire-t-mobiles-wireline-business-2022-09-07/ > > > > 1,400 customers > > 1,300 employees > > > > 19,000 long-haul route miles > > 1,300 metro route miles > > 16,800 leased route miles > > That's a dollar well spent. It also explains the layoffs. > > > > > -- > FQ World Domination pending: > https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/ > Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC >
