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Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid?

  • From: Eric D. Madison
  • Date: Mon Nov 10 17:53:13 1997

With this merger, approximately 80% of the Internet will now be controlled
by Wcom or it's companys.. wondering when an anti-trust suit will be
filed..

Eric



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

> ===== Nathan Stratton previously wrote: ====
> > 
> > internetMCI, ANS, and UUNet all would be operated as separate units, but I
> > don't think so. The cost savings of one network is very large, and 
> 
> 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.
> 
> BTW, Gridnet is old Worldcom network, and is never merged with UUNET.
> 
> 
> Jun
> 

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