[10904] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Wilkens)
Thu Jul 17 09:19:11 1997
From: Todd Wilkens <TWilkens@gridnet.com>
To: Scott Landman <Scott_Landman@zd.com>,
"'Charles Sprickman'"
<spork@inch.com>
Cc: "nathan@netrail.net" <nathan@netrail.net>,
"bnite@tremere.ios.com"
<bnite@tremere.ios.com>,
"mpearson@games-online.com"
<mpearson@games-online.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:58:02 -0400
I believe Worldcom owns the majority of their fiber and I think all three
lease fiber from Qwest. Qwest has fiber in the ground nation wide. I just
don't know how much is lit.
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>From: Charles Sprickman[SMTP:spork@inch.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 7:18 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
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>On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Scott Landman wrote:
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>> 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???
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>Anyone have any stats on how much MCI, Sprint, WCom actually own?
>
>Charles
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