Customer AS

> What Sprint's policy is actually meant to do is to discourage customers
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> from multi-homing to other providers. What their policy actually does is
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This is not a bad thing in itself.

That depends on who you are and how important your network connectivity is.
Clearly if someone has a business plan that calls for their packets to be
carried "hot, live" by two different worldwide IP carriers, neither of those
can be SprintLink. If I were SprintLink I would think this was a bad thing.