[17263] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Farmer)
Thu May 28 14:30:42 1998
From: Pete Farmer <pfarmer@strategies-u.com>
To: "NANOG (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: curtis@lamere.net
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:52:40 -0700
curtis@lamere.net wrote:
>Excuse me for posting this here, but this is from news.com. It
>basically says CWIX.NET gets the whole shooting match. Layer and all.
Not quite. The joint press release (from MCI:
http://www.mci.com/news-news/headline-896341261.shtml ; from C&W:
http://www.cwplc.com/press/1998/p98may28.htm ) both state that
Initially, MCI will provide the underlying telecommunications
transport services supporting the Cable & Wireless backbone and will
provide additional services as required by Cable & Wireless.
Pete
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