[10884] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rusty H. Hodge)
Wed Jul 16 22:21:14 1997
In-Reply-To:
<51EB05BB2B56CF11A29700AA00AF52091BD083@exchange.winterlan.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:02:04 -0700
To: Chris Fairbanks <chrisf@winterlan.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Rusty H. Hodge" <rusty@hodge.com>
At 5:05 PM -0700 7/16/97, Chris Fairbanks wrote:
> Doesn't Sprint stand for Southern Pacific Railroad INTernational?
Sprint was born when Southern Pacific spun off SP Communications, aka SPC,
(I believe to GTE). The name was then changed to Sprint. I don't think SPC
had any fiber back then - i remember the voice circuits were very noisy.
But you're pretty correct, SPC was using railroad right-of-way for
communications signalling - originally for SP's internal voice/data
network, and then began selling excess capacity.
--
Rusty Hodge <rusty@hodge.com>, San Francisco
