10gig pricing with Verizon crazy?

2016-03-19 Thread David Hubbard
Curious if anyone has had similar experience; looking for a 10gig transit 
circuit at a colo, contacted VZ as they’re on net in the facility, quoted me an 
astronomical amount at 10-20x going rates these days.  I’m curious if I just 
happened across a bad rep and should dig further, or that’s par for the course? 
 Rep was comfortable talking about BGP, v4/v6, etc. so I felt like I was 
talking to the right person until I saw the price lol.

Thanks,

David


Re: 10gig pricing with Verizon crazy?

2016-03-19 Thread Jared Mauch

> On Mar 16, 2016, at 5:48 PM, David Hubbard  
> wrote:
> 
> Curious if anyone has had similar experience; looking for a 10gig transit 
> circuit at a colo, contacted VZ as they’re on net in the facility, quoted me 
> an astronomical amount at 10-20x going rates these days.  I’m curious if I 
> just happened across a bad rep and should dig further, or that’s par for the 
> course?  Rep was comfortable talking about BGP, v4/v6, etc. so I felt like I 
> was talking to the right person until I saw the price lol.

In the brief period of time when I was not at my current employer I had a 
similar experience.  It wasn’t even worth my time to negotiate with them for a 
proper price, I basically told them they were way too high and moved on.

I’ve heard the right reps can get the proper pricing, but I wonder how much 
this is facility costs vs something else.

Carriers in my experience are pretty good at knowing their local market 
options, and unless you’re all going to locked-in 701 eyeballs it may be 
worthwhile to talk to someone else.

- Jared



Re: 10gig pricing with Verizon crazy?

2016-03-19 Thread Jason Baugher
We were talking to AT&T once about using them for last-mile in their
territories. The first pricing we got was astronomical. One we recovered
from the shock and scrolled down, we saw all the 98%discount this, 95%
discount that tables, which after being applied brought them into the
ballpark. I seem to remember the initial price being their tariff rate.
Verizon may be playing the same games.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:48 PM, David Hubbard <
dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:

> Curious if anyone has had similar experience; looking for a 10gig transit
> circuit at a colo, contacted VZ as they’re on net in the facility, quoted
> me an astronomical amount at 10-20x going rates these days.  I’m curious if
> I just happened across a bad rep and should dig further, or that’s par for
> the course?  Rep was comfortable talking about BGP, v4/v6, etc. so I felt
> like I was talking to the right person until I saw the price lol.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>


Re: 10gig pricing with Verizon crazy?

2016-03-19 Thread Daniel C. Eckert
What's your state/region and the general ballpark of the price quoted?
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:48 PM, David Hubbard <
dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:

> Curious if anyone has had similar experience; looking for a 10gig transit
> circuit at a colo, contacted VZ as they’re on net in the facility, quoted
> me an astronomical amount at 10-20x going rates these days.  I’m curious if
> I just happened across a bad rep and should dig further, or that’s par for
> the course?  Rep was comfortable talking about BGP, v4/v6, etc. so I felt
> like I was talking to the right person until I saw the price lol.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>

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