[10910] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Leppik)
Thu Jul 17 10:42:36 1997
From: Peter Leppik <pleppik@mail.wessels.com>
To: "'johnl@iecc.com'" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:05:54 -0500
I was relying on an article which crossed my desk a few weeks ago, and
now I can't find it again. My apologies if my memory failed me; it
wouldn't be the first time.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: johnl@iecc.com [SMTP:johnl@iecc.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 8:43 PM
>To: Peter Leppik
>Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
>
>>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).
>
>That is most bizarre. Williams has been in the fiber business for
>ages, their fiber subsidiary was Wiltel which was the 4th or 5th
>largest IXC by volume (mostly resold to other carriers) when it was
>sold and merged into LDDS/Worldcom in early 1995. Are you saying that
>after they spun off Wiltel, Williams went back into the fiber
>stringing business?
>
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