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Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid?


From: Snowdog <snowdog () charm net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:51:42 -0500 (EST)

Hmmm.. I wonder how long before British Telecom makes a bid
to buy Sprint (if at all)???

Snowdog


On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Jun (John) Wu wrote:

At the traffic level the above three are running, the savings may not
be that much. Plus, instead of two links, one to MCI and one to UUNET,
now the customer needs just one (MAYBE bigger) connection to this new
provider. This is potentially a big loss in revenue.

Large customer who have a connection into say MCI and UUNet will just get
a connection into Worldcom and some other backbone provider. So yes I
think it will be a loss of revenue, but I think the customers will move
the other connection. 

BTW, Gridnet is old Worldcom network, and is never merged with UUNET.

Heheheh, ya there are big reasons for this. 

-Nathan




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