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RE: Exodus/C&W Depeering

  • From: Borchers, Mark
  • Date: Tue Mar 26 14:39:14 2002 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> AS3561 (InternetMCI) was once the number 1 ISP, by almost every
> measure that existed.  The marketplace has not been kind to C&W
> since they bought AS3561.  Why isn't Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
> rewarding C&W?  Is C&W number 5 or 6 these days?

I think all that shows is that a well-engineered network does not sell 
itself.

Those MCI sales and TSC people did a bangup job of taking care of
data customers, from my limited point of view at the time.  When the
Transaction occurred, overnight my company's account team went from
being 3 competent people in a local office to someone who worked out 
of her house on the other side of the state.