On Oct. 30, Sprint Nextel severed its last connection to Cogent Communications, disconnecting two of the Internet's five largest backbones. Instantly, major American and Canadian universities lost contact with each other. Officials in Maine's state government found they couldn't link up with many town governments. Millions of Sprint's wireless broadband customers found themselves cut off from thousands of Web sites. Yet neither the Federal Communications Commission nor the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission took any action to restore global connectivity and the Web stayed broken for three days.
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Netsplits between Tier 1 networks aren't new.
One of the reasons they oppose net neutrality is because they want to put the squeeze on other companies.
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