[46178] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re[4]: Metromedia Fiber warns of possible bankruptcy :-(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Tue Mar 19 17:16:27 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:10:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:58:46 -0500 Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
> Since they are defaulting on a $975B note to Verizon, and since they have
> been saying Verizon does lease dark fiber from them, it would be the
> easiest
> thing in the world for Verizon to take control of MFNX.
> The real question is will they merge it with Genuity?
1) $975B seems a tad large
2) it was my understanding that Genuity was spun off when GTE merged with
BA, a requirement imposed by the regulators.
richard
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