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Re: So who the heck is "Wolfcon,"

  • From: Avi Freedman
  • Date: Mon Aug 26 17:35:09 1996 
I think MFS will stay as easy to deal with as they are now...
Or as hard.

They tend to be easier to deal with in some markets than in others...

Avi

> It's "Worldcom", the product of the acquisition of what was "WilTel"
> from the The Williams Companies by LDDS.  (The right to use the 
> WilTel name reverted to The Williams Companies six months after the 
> transaction closed.)
> 
> > 
> >     ...and where did they get 14.1 billion dollars?  
> 
> According to the WSJ story this morning, they didn't get 14.1 billion
> dollars....they traded shares of Worldcom valued at 14.1 billion
> dollars at the (then) last market close in exchange for the stock of
> MFS.
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