[17333] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Fri May 29 11:05:47 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 07:45:23 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@vix.com>
To: perry@piermont.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805281637.MAA24884@jekyll.piermont.com>; from Perry E. Metzger on Thu, May 28, 1998 at 12:37:19PM -0400
On 05/28/98, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> 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.
It would if MCI was selling off the entire Internet segment
of the company. Right now it looks like they're actually
only selling a tiny chunk (probably the chunk that's got
"Internet" in the name as opposed to "data services"), so
it's pretty clearly just a token effort -- but it might
work, leaving MCI Worldcom free to screw us all over.
I'm not saying they /will/. But it's looking like it won't
be too long until they /can/.
> Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a
> great conspiracy...
Nah, this is pretty boring as conspiracies go.
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J.D. Falk <jdfalk@vix.com>
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