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Sprint Severs Internet Connection to Cogent Communications

***Sprint resolved this issue Sunday, November 2. Customers should no longer be having problems accessing Cogent servers. Please read this EVDOForums.com post for more details.

Sprint announced at 4:30pm yesterday that they are severing their internet connection to Cogent Communications. According to the press release below, "it is no longer possible for many Sprint customers and Cogent customers to directly communicate across the Internet". In addition, for Sprint users attempting to connect to any websites or servers serviced by Cogent, this could prove to be a big problem.

At 3Gstore.com, we understand that this could come as a major inconvenience to some of our Sprint customers, so we wanted to suggest some workarounds for our Sprint EVDO customers that we hope will help you.

If you are having trouble accessing specific websites, we would suggest using a proxy server. Using a proxy server is like using a translator to speak with someone who doesn't understand your language. Instead of dealing directly with the server you want, you'll be making a request somewhere else (the proxy) and then your connection will view web content that is forwarded to you. We created a PDF file on how to use a proxy server, so we encourage our customers (who purchased their Sprint Cards from 3Gstore.com) to email support(at)3gstore.com to request a copy.

Hopefully this issue will be resolved soon, but we're happy to help our customers with a solution in the meantime.

WASHINGTON, Oct 30, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ ----On October 30 at 4:30 pm Sprint-Nextel severed its Internet connection to Cogent thereby partitioning the Internet. It is no longer possible for many Sprint customers and Cogent customers to directly communicate across the Internet. Sprint did so in violation of a contractual obligation to exchange Internet traffic with Cogent on a settlement free peering basis. Sprint and Cogent are engaged in litigation over this matter. Cogent regrets that Sprint chose to take this unilateral action rather than await a determination by the court as to the rights of the parties. Cogent remains ready to reestablish, on the same settlement free basis as previously existed, the connections that Sprint has severed.

In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides service, Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is unable to connect to Cogent's customers a free 100 megabit per second connection to the Internet for as long as Sprint continues to keep this partitioning of the Internet in place. Unfortunately, there is no way that Cogent can do the same for the wireless customers of Sprint-Nextel.

All other major wireless carriers have full connectivity to Cogent and are unaffected by this event.

About Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications (Nasdaq: CCOI) is a multinational, Tier 1 facilities-based ISP, operating one of the largest capacity IP networks in existence with lit capacities ranging from 80 to 240 Gigabits per second. Cogent specializes in providing businesses with high speed Internet access and point-to-point transport services. Cogent's facilities-based, all-optical IP network backbone provides IP services in over 110 markets located in North America and Europe.

Since Cogent's inception, Cogent has unleashed the benefits of IP technology, building one of the largest and highest capacity IP networks in existence. This network enables Cogent to offer large bandwidth connections at highly competitive prices. Cogent also offers superior customer support by virtue of its end-to-end control of service delivery and network monitoring.

Cogent Communications is headquartered at 1015 31st Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007. For more information, visit www.cogentco.com. Cogent Communications can be reached in the United States at (202) 295-4200 or via email at info@cogentco.com.

Information in this release may involve expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to Cogent Communications Group, Inc. as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations. Numerous factors could cause or contribute to such differences. Some of the factors and risks associated with our business are discussed in Cogent's registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in its other reports filed from time to time with the SEC.

SOURCE Cogent Communications