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| | PCWorld.com - Feuding ISPs Call Truce |
 | | Level 3 says it warned Cogent in July that it would end the peering arrangement unless the two sides agreed on "alternative commercial terms," likely involving Cogent paying Level 3 to continue carrying its traffic. |
 | | When Cogent ignored those notices, Level 3 carried through on its threat and cut Cogent off, leaving some customers on each vendor's network unable to reach certain sites that depend on the other vendor's network. |
 | | A Level 3 spokesperson said last week that the company's Cogent de-peering was part of a more widespread evaluation of Level 3's peering agreements, a review that led it to renegotiate or end several other peering contracts. |
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