[17254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 28 12:41:09 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 1998 11:49:15 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:37:19 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
God, this is all so DERANGED.
MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that
Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The
result seems understandable.
Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a
great conspiracy...
.pm
Marc Hurst writes:
>
>
> On Thu, 28 May 1998, James D. Butt wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
>
> What'ya mean?
>
> Thats' the nature of the entire corporate theatre of this industry. There
> is so much incest and double dealing that it makes Tom Clancy novels lame
> in comparison....
>
> M.
