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RE: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid? ; charset=us-ascii
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Mon Nov 10 17:25:56 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:59:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Gary Zimmerman <garyz@savvis.com>
cc: Steve Carter <steve@lynx.genuity.net>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BCEDF1.31CF1F10@Rock.savvis.com>
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Gary Zimmerman wrote:
> This would mean that Worldcom has a very large percentage of the
> Internet traffic. Does everyone think they will let this go through,
> without breaking out the Internet part of the deal? What about selling
> the InternetMCI portion off to someone to keep a balance of carriers of
> the Internet traffic and not let it be controlled by one company? I
> can think of few companies that could buy the InternetMCI portion, but
> do they want in the game? I would think a few of them are forward
> thinking enough to know what that could mean. So, who will start the
> biding, anyone with 4 or 5 billion, laying around? Several....
It will go through, many of us have talked to DOJ to try to get them to
not let something like this go through, but I dont think they will stop
it. It is ok, I think it will be easier for me to build a backbone
provider if they are one company. If they sell it off, I need to watch
Worldcom and internetMCI if they are one, I just need to watch Worldcom.
-Nathan
