RE: Verizon wins MCI

["Chad Skidmore" <cskidmore () go180 net>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis () lewis org] 
> Posted At: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:38 PM
> Posted To: NANOG
> Conversation: Verizon wins MCI 
> Subject: Re: Verizon wins MCI 
>
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> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
> > > Verizon wins the battle for MCI, pays < 7B.
> >
> > I'm not financier, but this price seems rather low considering
> > how  large Worldcom is/used to be and that it includes all former
> > UUNET,  MCI, MFS, WCOM, etc. BTW - did this include Digex as
> > well?
>
> But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was?  First 
> thing Verizon will have to do is fire the entire billing 
> department and replace them with people/systems that can 
> generate correct bills and send them to the correct customers.
>
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Then the question is can Verizon actually generate an accurate and
readable bill.  :)

Based on our experience it will just be inaccurate and unreadable in
new and unusual ways.


Chad

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Chad E Skidmore
One Eighty Networks, Inc.
http://www.go180.net
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