You've officially missed the point of the settlement-free peering trial. As mentioned in TFA, it is only beneficial to both parties in a settlement-free peering agreement if the amount of traffic passed between the two networks is almost equal.
After 3 months, the traffic from Cogent wasn't as much as Cogent claimed it would be, and Sprint opted not to continue with the creation of a real settlement-free peering contract.
Nobody pulled out of anything, Cogent claimed their network passed more traffic than it really did and Sprint had no motivation to let them leech for free.
i work at best buy, and i can tell you the employee price on the nano and all other ipod products is exactly the same as the customer price. it's significant considering the employee discount at best buy on any item is the store cost + 5%. best buy doesn't sell ipods for the profit, they sell them to get customers in the store in hopes that they'll buy other things at the same time. the margin on accessories is so high because that's where the stores make their money.
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You've officially missed the point of the settlement-free peering trial. As mentioned in TFA, it is only beneficial to both parties in a settlement-free peering agreement if the amount of traffic passed between the two networks is almost equal.
After 3 months, the traffic from Cogent wasn't as much as Cogent claimed it would be, and Sprint opted not to continue with the creation of a real settlement-free peering contract.
Nobody pulled out of anything, Cogent claimed their network passed more traffic than it really did and Sprint had no motivation to let them leech for free.
i work at best buy, and i can tell you the employee price on the nano and all other ipod products is exactly the same as the customer price. it's significant considering the employee discount at best buy on any item is the store cost + 5%. best buy doesn't sell ipods for the profit, they sell them to get customers in the store in hopes that they'll buy other things at the same time. the margin on accessories is so high because that's where the stores make their money.