[17262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu May 28 14:23:57 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:15:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Al Reuben <alex@nac.net>
cc: Hui-Hui Hu <hhui@arcfour.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980528113841.16667G-100000@iago.nac.net>
I think the news.com article makes it pretty clear that the ENTIRE MCI
Internet operation (backbone, peering, 15,000 interconnections) were
all sold for $625M.
I guess C&W can dump its UUNet customer connections now.
-Deepak.
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Al Reuben wrote:
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> The question is (from my confusion) is, since this article was released in
> London, does 'domestic' imply Europe, or the US?
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> Another words, was the *entire* MCI backbone sold to C&W, or only the
> European portion of it (is there even a European portion of it?)
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> On Thu, 28 May 1998, Hui-Hui Hu wrote:
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> > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
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> > well, this should be interesting.
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> > ---
> > Tung-Hui Hu (HH26) Network admin and poet hhui@arcfour.com
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