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On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Gary Zimmerman wrote: > This would mean that Worldcom has a very large percentage of the > Internet traffic. Does everyone think they will let this go through, > without breaking out the Internet part of the deal? What about selling > the InternetMCI portion off to someone to keep a balance of carriers of > the Internet traffic and not let it be controlled by one company? I > can think of few companies that could buy the InternetMCI portion, but > do they want in the game? I would think a few of them are forward > thinking enough to know what that could mean. So, who will start the > biding, anyone with 4 or 5 billion, laying around? Several.... It will go through, many of us have talked to DOJ to try to get them to not let something like this go through, but I dont think they will stop it. It is ok, I think it will be easier for me to build a backbone provider if they are one company. If they sell it off, I need to watch Worldcom and internetMCI if they are one, I just need to watch Worldcom. -Nathan
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