[13550] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Mon Nov 10 17:32:13 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 18:03:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: "Jun (John) Wu" <jun@wolfox.gip.net>
cc: jrichard@fix.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199711102216.RAA18796@wolfox.gip.net>
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Jun (John) Wu wrote:
> At the traffic level the above three are running, the savings may not
> be that much. Plus, instead of two links, one to MCI and one to UUNET,
> now the customer needs just one (MAYBE bigger) connection to this new
> provider. This is potentially a big loss in revenue.
Large customer who have a connection into say MCI and UUNet will just get
a connection into Worldcom and some other backbone provider. So yes I
think it will be a loss of revenue, but I think the customers will move
the other connection.
> BTW, Gridnet is old Worldcom network, and is never merged with UUNET.
Heheheh, ya there are big reasons for this.
-Nathan
