[12183] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet + ans == ??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Mon Sep 8 18:38:39 1997
From: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
To: sanjay@professionals.com (Sanjay Dani)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:05:24 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199709081845.LAA11283@osprey.professionals.com> from "Sanjay Dani" at Sep 8, 97 11:45:47 am
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> >Net Effects: H&R Block is rid of CompuServe. AOL owns CompuServe's
> >subscribers and is out of the business of deploying modems and routers.
> >WorldCom owns the networks built by AOL and CompuServe and sells network
> >services to AOL. The big get bigger.
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> Couldn't help noting that UUnet will run modems and routers
> for AOL+Compuserve and it continues to do so for their biggest
> competitor MSN (at least the last time I checked). Antitrust?
>
> As a Web services provider we are already seeing AS701 as the
> biggest consumer of our customer contents. Anyone care to share
> their view of how the big boys rank in terms of traffic? IMHO
> this does have just a tad bit more relevance to operations that
> the original thread :-)
>
> Regards,
> Sanjay.
>
