Claude Monet Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies

caved completely, Sprint stood to gain $1.5 million or so in annual revenue, which would add .004% to the company's $40 billion in annual revenue. The downside was vastly higher. Sprint is first and foremost a wireless company, deriving only 6% of its revenues from its Internet division. Sprint's future relies on attracting high-percolated up the ranks at Sprint quickly. It cut off Cogent completely late on a Thursday afternoon, Oct. 30. By Sunday, Nov. 2, the company had changed its mind and reconnected.
In the end, the Sprint versus Cogent showdown provided both an unusual glimpse into how the Internet works--and at how resilient and flexible the unregulated Internet is. The current laissez-faire system has a remarkable ability to encourage privately run networks to voluntarily strike deals that benefit paying broadband wireless customers--and it was those customers who were all cut off from part of the Internet as a result of its fight with Cogent.That reality appears to have