Well, yes, that goes hand-in-hand with "...expects hefty charge".
To me, this just says T-Mobile wants out of the POTS business at almost any cost.
All those poor people stuck with Cogent now, I feel sorry for them!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+athompson=merlin.mb.ca@nanog.org> On
> Behalf Of Jawaid Bazyar
> Sent: September 7, 2022 5:04 PM
> To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>; Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?
>
> $1 deals usually come with an operation in the red, or assumption of
> significant debts.
>
> On 9/7/22, 2:55 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Dave Taht" <nanog-
> bounces+jbazyar=verobroadband.com@nanog.org on behalf of
> dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 1:48 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > Are Sprint AS1239 and Cogent AS174 finally going to settle
> their peering
>     > disputes?
>     >
>     > T-Mobile sells legacy Sprint wireline business to Cogent for
> $1, expects
>     > hefty charge
>     > https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cogent-communications-
> acquire-t-mobiles-wireline-business-2022-09-07/
>     >
>     > 1,400 customers
>     > 1,300 employees
>     >
>     > 19,000 long-haul route miles
>     > 1,300 metro route miles
>     > 16,800 leased route miles
>
>     That's a dollar well spent. It also explains the layoffs.
>     >
>
>
>     --
>     FQ World Domination pending:
> https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/
>     Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
>