[AusNOG] Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to change an ip-line to e-line

[Joshua D'Alton]

Price might depend on carrier. Those prices almost match up with: Telstra,
PIPE, TPG respectively lol.

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Alastair Waddell <awaddell at legion.com.au>wrote:

> Hi Nogites,
>
> The gist of this question is 'how much work is it actually to change an
> ip-line on a ESSA to an e-line?'
>
> I haven't named my carrier and I believe e-line and ip-line are
> carrier-agnostic terms within common parlance.
>
> We installed a carrier bundle of mid-band ethernet access and internet and
> I did seek assurances that we could later change the ip-line component to
> an e-line after we'd installed an interconnect, which we've now done.
>
> Carrier now advises that we need to pay out the 3 year contract if we want
> to make the said change to have the customer access connected via an e-line
> to our POI
>
> It is true, in hindsight, that we could have ordered the customer access
> as an ETA in which case the logical changes could be managed however, this
> was not grokked-and-sunk-home by myself at the time of ordering.
>
> But, I'd just like to know, as I prepare to tell the customer they've been
> hung out to dry, how much work is it really? Just how much would it bust
> their (carrier) chops to to make this change on an ESSA?
>
> Does this case pass the 'a reasonable person would/could' test? How much
> would it bust your chops or my chops if it were we who were asked to do it
> and what value would you put on that: $12,500? $1250? $125?
>
>
>
> Regards,
> --
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>
> Alastair Waddell                          email:  awaddell at legion.com.au
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