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Re: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James D. Butt)
Thu May 28 11:39:27 1998

Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:35:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: "James D. Butt" <jbutt@mwci.net>
To: Hui-Hui Hu <hhui@arcfour.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980528151911.17204.qmail@obsidian.stardot.com>

> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
> 
> 
> well, this should be interesting.

Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all
of the internet stuff..

I am not sure I like it.. it looks as though they are setting the industry
up for something.

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