A month later, Doyle pronounced himself impressed. "Every company's got a high-speed Internet offering," he said, "but Cogent is offering the highest speed. They've got a compelling story.'' Yet Doyle wasn't completely ready to let go of his traditional skepticism. "Getting their customer base is the hard part,'' he declared. "They have to go to each building and then win people over, one by one. That's going to be a lot of buildings.''
George Anders (ganders@fastcompany.com) is a Fast Company senior editor based in Silicon Valley. Contact Dave Schaeffer by email
(ds@cogentco.com).
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February 24, 2009 at 3:09pm by Eli Shapiro
Well many years later and this company is still an unknown in the market, with US high speed internet ranking very badly among the offerings available worldwide. I wonder what happened with this fiber project that derailed its success? If they're still in existence, though, there's a huge amount of stimulus money being set aside for creating a new backbone, which it seems like they already have experience doing...