North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid?
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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