C&W is divesting itself of a lot of "real estate" these
days. It struck a deal with Primus concerning its
voice customers (last week), now its DSL customers to
New Edge.
Moreover, the BBC reports today that C&W is cutting 3500 jobs
worldwide and "also announced heavy losses." C&W announced
that it was cutting 23 of its 42 "data centres around the
world."
(The losses this past year exceed $6.5 Billion.)
Peter
C&W is divesting itself of a lot of "real estate" these
days. It struck a deal with Primus concerning its
voice customers (last week), now its DSL customers to
New Edge.
New Edge is also getting their non-enterprise (i.e. T1, frac DS3)
customers. We got our first strong-arm letter on October 11th threatening
disconnection if we didn't sign a migration authorization. Yesterday we
got notice that our T1's get shut off on December 31st.
Moreover, the BBC reports today that C&W is cutting 3500 jobs
worldwide and "also announced heavy losses." C&W announced
that it was cutting 23 of its 42 "data centres around the
world."(The losses this past year exceed $6.5 Billion.)
This doesn't surprise me. Exodus lost their shirts buying GlobalCenter.
Then C&W bought Exodus. Granted, it's not the only reason for losing
money. But it's undoubtedly a big contributor.
-j
C&W is moving any customers that are not directly connected to a C&W
owned node to New Edge. I am a C&W T-1 Customer in the Phoenix, AZ
market on the N3 network and we will not be moving anywhere.
We are also connected to the N3 network (2 T1's to Atlanta/ALD, 2 T1's to
WashDC/DCK). Phoenix may not be on their first-to-cut list.
-j