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Re: Buy tier 1 peering for only $15 million
- From: Dean Robb
- Date: Thu Apr 20 15:35:34 2000
At 06:25 PM 4/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>AGIS is going on the auction block. NextLink paid over a billion dollars
>for a provider with essentially full peering with the major backbones, now
>you too can buy peering agreements from a one-time "tier 1" provider.
>According to InteractiveWeek the high bid is only US$15 million.
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2552561,00.html
>
>Then again, maybe AGIS's anti-peering policies of a few years ago make
>them a less attractive purchase.
That and I don't think they ever recovered from the fallout over their
spam-friendly policies a few years back, either.
"Microsoft is not a monopoly!" - Bill Gates "HA!" - Judge Jackson
Dean Robb
Owner, PC-EASY
(757) 495-EASY [3279]
On-site computer services
Member, ICANN @Large
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