Imagine life without the Internet. Hard? Just ask state officials in Maine to tell you about the ugly surprise they had on Halloween. On Oct. 30, Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ) severed its last connection to Cogent Communications (nasdaq: CCOI - news - people ), disconnecting two of the Internet’s five largest backbones. Instantly, major American and Canadian universities lost contact with each other.
December 03, 2008, 11:52am
