[17273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Network Operations Center)
Thu May 28 15:21:16 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 13:28:55 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: noc@nso.org (Network Operations Center)
In-Reply-To: <199805281637.MAA24884@jekyll.piermont.com>
Nope Perry....nothing deranged...
You can read the full press releases as issued by
both MCI and CW here: http://www.isr.net/NETNEWS/netnewsmain.html
rgds
red
At 12:37 PM 5/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>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.
>
