To answer the OP, No, Don't tell them what you pay, And if you do. Tell them something much lower then what you really pay.
<rambling> Cogent is cheap (watch for there half price sales...) I've seen 100Mb/s from them as low as like $300 Everyone else hates cogent. I had a Verizon rep quote me something like $2900 for 100Mb/s (on-net). I laughed at the guy. And he pulled the famous line (Level 3 loves this one too), "Well, you get access to the proven $provider network, Cogent's Network can't compete with ours." AT&T takes the cake however. A real quote from AT&T came back for $5465.04 for 50Mb/s and $9210.78 for 100Mb/s. No, I'm not kidding. You can get way better prices though a 3rd party AT&T rep. Not sure what they really call them (solutions providers?). </rambling> Nick Olsen Network Operations (877) 804-3001 x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Matt Jenkins" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:56 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Shopping for bandwidth I can get Cogent for $600 per month for 100/100 meg! Just have to BH it 44 miles...... On 10/04/2010 12:55 PM, support wrote: Tell them you pay $200 per month for A 50/50 meg link can you beat that? :) On 10/4/2010 2:46 PM, Cameron Kilton wrote: I just laugh at them and say, wouldn't you like to know Thanks, Cameron Kilton On 10/4/2010 3:31 PM, Roger Howard wrote: What do you do when you ask for a quote for bandwidth, and the person asks what you are paying right now. Do you tell them, and if you do, won't they just undercut it by a little just to get your business? Seems like a strange way of doing business to ask what you're paying for something before giving you a quote. Thanks, Roger ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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