Today while negotiating with Cogent for connectivity in the WOW 226 Datacenter I sent a copy of the original email and told them I will NEVER use Cogent for my customers due to this kind of activity.

Imagine if everyone else follows suit.

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On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 4:25 PM Jon Sands <fohdeesha@gmail.com> wrote:

Cogent getting involved in absolutely obnoxious and shady sales tactics that they'll seemingly never address or do anything about? Why I never

On 8/5/2022 4:20 PM, Dennis Burgess wrote:

So we just got an email from cogent, we have told them time and time again to stop calling and stop emailing. We tell them are good on bandwidth and we don’t need any of their services.. They then sent us a e-mail stating that they saw us coming though one of their customers networks from us, and figured we would want to buy direct instead of going though one of their customers. Yes COGENT stated this; well at least one of their sales reps. Sounds underhanded, shady, and unethical to me. Just figured I would post about it; see if I am making a mountain out of a mole hill 😊

Here is the e-mail:

"Hey (redacted) ,

Maybe there is a misunderstanding. (ISP’s name removed) is a cogent customer who we provide upstream to.

My initial inquiry was to see if it makes sense for Link Technologies to be utilizing our network instead of through (ISP’s name removed). That way we could be a direct network for you.

Would that be at all something that interests you?

Eric Gogerty | Global Account Manager | AS 174

Cogent Communications | Minneapolis, MN (United States Of America)| www.cogentco.com

Contact: 612-217-5506| email: egogerty@cogentco.com

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