[46381] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Exodus/C&W Depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borchers, Mark)
Tue Mar 26 14:37:23 2002
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From: "Borchers, Mark" <mborchers@splitrock.net>
To: 'Sean Donelan' <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:35:16 -0600
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> AS3561 (InternetMCI) was once the number 1 ISP, by almost every
> measure that existed. The marketplace has not been kind to C&W
> since they bought AS3561. Why isn't Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
> rewarding C&W? Is C&W number 5 or 6 these days?
I think all that shows is that a well-engineered network does not sell
itself.
Those MCI sales and TSC people did a bangup job of taking care of
data customers, from my limited point of view at the time. When the
Transaction occurred, overnight my company's account team went from
being 3 competent people in a local office to someone who worked out
of her house on the other side of the state.
