Cogent Sues DT in US Over Alleged Internet Congestion
Cogent sued Deutsche Telekom in a U.S. court for alleged breach of contract, charging DT was "congesting its Internet connections with Cogent." DT "has interfered with the free flow of Internet traffic between Cogent customers and Deutsche Telekom customers by…
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refusing to increase the capacity of the interconnection ports that allow the exchange of traffic,” said Robert Beury, Cogent chief legal officer, in a news release Tuesday evening. “The congestion results in degraded service to customers of both companies. Deutsche Telekom is using its market power as the dominant provider of residential Internet service in Germany in an attempt to extract a toll, directly or indirectly, from companies in the U.S. that provide Internet services that Deutsche Telekom’s customers want to use. This particularly harms smaller U.S. companies that cannot afford to locate Internet servers in Europe where they can directly connect to Deutsche Telekom and avoid the congestion.” The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Virginia Tuesday. DT didn't comment.