Re: Dispute between Cogent and Level 3 makes some internet radio stations unreachable to some.
"Another part of the industry that would
get killed would be the EGI Hostings, Streamguys.com,
MediaCast's, etc. The so called 3rd party internet radio
streaming company's would be killed off.. which would
actually be a good thing for this industry.. These are the
one's preventing stations from growing."
Well....... thats true about some streaming services BUT....... Business for them would have to die first before they could die......and their business is Internet Radio.
If level3 succeeds in bullying Cogent into raising prices,
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> > Bandwith is too expensive as it is.....
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> > level3 should lower their prices and compete, rather than
> > try to monopolize bandwith.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051006/wr_nm/backbone_dc
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> > > Cogent is our main bandwidth provider, without a 3rd
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> > > source, and at the beginning of the week.. it was pretty
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> > > bad.. but the past 2 days... it appears they have the
> > issues
> > > resolved... crossing fingers and hoping they can come to
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> > > conclusion with this...without anymore service
> > interuptions.
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> > > It's actually funny because Level3 thinks they can push
> > > Cogent around... and checking our servers... it doesnt
> > > appear that way at all.
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> > > Network Status: Normal
> > > DNS Servers Status: Normal
> > > Dialup/IPASS Status: Normal
> > > Mail Servers Status: Normal
> > > Webservers Status: Normal
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> I think the larger stations would dwindle off before the
> smaller stations. It would just be too expensive to handle
> all the listeners. Another part of the industry that would
> get killed would be the EGI Hostings, Streamguys.com,
> MediaCast's, etc. The so called 3rd party internet radio
> streaming company's would be killed off.. which would
> actually be a good thing for this industry.. These are the
> one's preventing stations from growing.
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