[10879] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Leppik)
Wed Jul 16 19:53:47 1997
From: Peter Leppik <pleppik@mail.wessels.com>
To: "'Charles Sprickman'" <spork@inch.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:35:15 -0500
At the end of 1995, according the the FCC, the major interexchange
carriers had the following amounts of fiber deployed:
Carrier Route Miles Fiber Miles
AT&T 46,083 1,417,600
MCI 23,160 567,400
Sprint 22,996 467,200
WorldCom 11,127 266,200
Other 4,223 58,900
I believe new statistics for 1996 have just been released, but I don't
have those numbers handy at the moment. Try www.fcc.gov, and look for a
report called "Fiber Deployment Update" or somesuch.
Qwest is a relative newcomer (just went public) which has been building
out their own fiber network with the intent of reselling it to other
carriers. Qwest also bought a boatload of fiber from Williams Pipeline
Co. some time ago, and signed a contract with Williams which locked
Williams out of the business of deploying new fiber until early 1998
(Williams runs fiber through unused oil and gas pipelines, having
discovered that fiber optics is more of a growth industry than
schlepping around fermented dinosaurs).
Regards,
-Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Sprickman [SMTP:spork@inch.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 6:19 PM
>To: Scott Landman
>Cc: nathan@netrail.net; bnite@tremere.ios.com; mpearson@games-online.com;
>nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
>
>On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Scott Landman wrote:
>
>> If fibers being cut is the culprit here, does going with a supplier like
>> Qwest make sense because their fibers are running down railroad right of
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>I was under the impression that there was one fiber giant that actually
>owns its own fiber, and that its name is AT&T... Who is Qwest???
>
>Anyone have any stats on how much MCI, Sprint, WCom actually own?
>
>Charles
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