On Fri, 5 Apr 1996 00:25:47 -0500 (EST) Avi Freedman wrote:

We have a local, new, competitor who generally lies out his ass and also says 'We are the Internet backbone. Only we can offer you 100% Full Bandwidth'. They have a T1 to a provider with a T1 to MCI and a T1 to AGIS.

Of course, they claim to have 3 T3s and they claim that MAE-East an unimportant private exchange point between AT&T and Sprint.

And they solicit our customers, sigh.

And someone with 2 T1s to Sprint has been saying "We are *the* Internet Backbone in South Jersey".

I think every area and country has their liars and charletons. What you say is nothing new. You just have to keep plowing ahead and maintain a high level of service and connectivity and users will stay with you. Those that switch will come back after the FBNs (Fly By Nights), turn bellyup.

Avi

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