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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
On 05/28/98, "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> wrote: > God, this is all so DERANGED. > > MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that > Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The > result seems understandable. It would if MCI was selling off the entire Internet segment of the company. Right now it looks like they're actually only selling a tiny chunk (probably the chunk that's got "Internet" in the name as opposed to "data services"), so it's pretty clearly just a token effort -- but it might work, leaving MCI Worldcom free to screw us all over. I'm not saying they /will/. But it's looking like it won't be too long until they /can/. > Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a > great conspiracy... Nah, this is pretty boring as conspiracies go. -- J.D. Falk <[email protected]> Vixie Enterprises http://www.vix.com/ *** No more time to wait! http://www.tigerden.com/junkmail/redalert.html ***
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