I find it most useful as a warning beacon. If anyone is talking about how they are or want "Tier 1", then I need to back away slowly.
From: "Mark Tinka via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
To: "Tomas Lynch" <tomas.lynch@gmail.com>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 5:26:21 AM
Subject: Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?
On 4/Sep/20 23:41, Tomas Lynch wrote:
Oh, yes! Let's not
start another "what's a tier one" war!
Oh no, let's :-).
We get over here in Africa as well. Local operators either calling
themselves Tier 1, or being called a Tier 1. Nonsensical.
Years back, our Marketing team asked me to comment on the use of
"Tier" for our literature. You can probably imagine what I said :-).
For me, it's simple - you are present in X cities or Y cities. Tier
is useless because the Internet does not come from a single country
or a single operator. And saying a network is "big" or "small" is
subjective to everyone's perspective, so that doesn't help either.
So you're present here, and present there. That's it.
It's 2020 :-).
Mark.