[13560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Snowdog)
Mon Nov 10 19:55:10 1997
From: Snowdog <snowdog@charm.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:51:42 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971110180012.7231B-100000@robotics.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Nov 10, 97 06:03:19 pm
Hmmm.. I wonder how long before British Telecom makes a bid
to buy Sprint (if at all)???
Snowdog
>
> 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
>
