RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

[Peter Leppik <pleppik () mail wessels com>]

I was relying on an article which crossed my desk a few weeks ago, and
now I can't find it again.  My apologies if my memory failed me; it
wouldn't be the first time.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  johnl () iecc com [SMTP:johnl () iecc com]
> Sent:  Wednesday, July 16, 1997 8:43 PM
> To:    Peter Leppik
> Subject:       Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
>
> > carriers.  Qwest also bought a boatload of fiber from Williams Pipeline
> > Co. some time ago, and signed a contract with Williams which locked
> > Williams out of the business of deploying new fiber until early 1998
> > (Williams runs fiber through unused oil and gas pipelines, having
> > discovered that fiber optics is more of a growth industry than
> > schlepping around fermented dinosaurs).
>
> That is most bizarre.  Williams has been in the fiber business for
> ages, their fiber subsidiary was Wiltel which was the 4th or 5th
> largest IXC by volume (mostly resold to other carriers) when it was
> sold and merged into LDDS/Worldcom in early 1995.  Are you saying that
> after they spun off Wiltel, Williams went back into the fiber
> stringing business?
>
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