Re: IP: The real bandwidth numbers.

[David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>]

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From: Rob McMillin <rlm () pricegrabber com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:15:02 
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Re: IP: The real bandwidth numbers.

On the subject of cheap bandwidth -- a friend yesterday forwarded a 
proposition from a company called Cogent:

http://www.cogentco.com/Fast/elegant_proposition.html

$1k/mo for 100Mb/s fiber, installed at a large building of your choice. 
Interesting enough, but if you read their latest 10-K filing at the SEC

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000091205702012716/a2075165z10-k.htm

you'll see they 've lost $65M on revenues of about $3M for FY2001. I'm 
no expert but I thought that "sign up customers now, become profitable 
later" business models had gone out with the dot-com bust. What good's 
cheap bandwidth if the company selling it won't exist next year?

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