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Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber
From: "Chris A. Icide" <chris () nap net>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 08:30:27 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Doesn't Bill Gates own some portion of the WC conglomerate? It sures smells like a BG thing. Microsquish owns the desktop/Servers and WC owns the Internet/ Telecommunications, and Bill owns them both? Thrills, gotta love the advances we would see then, mainly in price.... - -Chris At 05:38 AM 10/1/97 -0700, Rodney Joffe wrote:
Hit Delete now... off topic, but significant for ALL...
http://interactive.wsj.com/edition/current/summaries/front.htm
In case you can't get to the page, Worldcom this morning announced a
bid
to buy MCI out from under BT. Also announce a deal to acquire all of Brooks Fiber. Rodney Joffe Chief Technology Officer Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company http://www.genuity.net
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Current thread:
- Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Rodney Joffe (Oct 01)
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Chris A. Icide (Oct 01)
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Steve Mansfield (Oct 01)
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Jesse M. Caulfield (Oct 01)
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Kent W. England (Oct 01)
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Joel Sadler - Indentured Servant (Oct 01)
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Michael Dillon (Oct 01)
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Steve Mansfield (Oct 01)
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Chris A. Icide (Oct 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber Mark Goodge (Oct 01)
- RE: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber George J. Broadfoot III (Oct 01)