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Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid?

  • From: Snowdog
  • Date: Mon Nov 10 19:59:33 1997 
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
>