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Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid? ; charset=us-ascii
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Mon Nov 10 16:42:18 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:06:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Steve Carter <steve@lynx.genuity.net>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199711102056.NAA19066@lynx.genuity.net>
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Steve Carter wrote:
> Pessimist Nathan? I seems to me that it would be out of character for
> Worldcom to integrate MCI. They didn't with MFS, ANS or UUNet. Different
> market targets?
>
> -Steve.
I don't think so. They may try different target markets, but the cost
savings of merging the internet networks is very big. Yes it is a good
idea to make MFS and UUNet separate divisions, because they work better
that way. I think you will see MFS + Brooks as one unit and UUNet + ANS +
internetMCI as one unit.
P.S. In that last messages I said that internetMCI was using Stratacom,
they are actually using Fore.
-Nathan
