Responding to Suit, DT Says Cogent Shares Duty To Upgrade Internet Links
Deutsche Telekom disputed Cogent's rationale for suing DT in a U.S. court because the German company allegedly refused to remedy congestion in Internet connections between the two companies. "Cogent sends multiple times more data traffic into our network than we…
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do in the opposite direction," a Deutsche Telekom spokesperson emailed us Friday. "Why should we solely be responsible for paying the cost of the increase in capacity of the network interconnection? This responsibility must be shared by partners jointly." Cogent filed suit Tuesday against Deutsche Telekom in federal court in Virginia for alleged breach of contract. It argued DT was attempting to leverage its market power and "extract a toll" by allowing Cogent traffic congestion and service degradation (see 1512090070).