cogent - Sales practices

[Dennis Burgess <dmburgess () linktechs net>]

So we just got an email from cogent, we have told them time and time again to stop calling and stop emailing.  We tell 
them are good on bandwidth and we don’t need any of their services.. They then sent us a e-mail stating that they saw 
us coming though one of their customers networks from us, and figured we would want to buy direct instead of going 
though one of their customers. Yes COGENT stated this; well at least one of their sales reps.  Sounds underhanded, 
shady, and unethical to me.    Just figured I would post about it; see if I am making a mountain out of a mole hill 😊

Here is the e-mail:

"Hey (redacted) ,
Maybe there is a misunderstanding. (ISP’s name removed) is a cogent customer who we provide upstream to.
My initial inquiry was to see if it makes sense for Link Technologies to be utilizing our network instead of through 
(ISP’s name removed). That way we could be a direct network for you.
Would that be at all something that interests you?

Eric Gogerty | Global Account Manager | AS 174
Cogent Communications | Minneapolis, MN (United States Of America)| www.cogentco.com
Contact: 612-217-5506| email: egogerty () cogentco com
The Internet, Unleashed!"




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Dennis Burgess

Mikrotik : Trainer, Network Associate, Routing Engineer, Wireless Engineer, Traffic Control Engineer, Inter-Networking 
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