[17253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu May 28 12:31:49 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:16:13 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980528102852.9931A-100000@firewall.mwci.net>; from "James D. Butt" <jbutt@mwci.net> on Thu, May 28, 1998 at 10:35:17AM -0500
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 10:35:17AM -0500, James D. Butt wrote:
> Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all
> of the internet stuff..
Oops.
> MCI will sell to Cable & Wireless its Internet backbone service
> business comprising all of its 22 domestic nodes, 15,000
> interconnection ports, and more than 40 ongoing peering agreements.
That's certainly isn't how _I_ interpret that paragraph. I can't
imagine them selling the IP business.
Cheers,
-- jra
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