[46553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Qwest Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph T. Klein)
Thu Apr 4 01:54:32 2002
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 06:53:51 -0000
From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, sjsobol@JustThe.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Please send a copy ....
--On Thursday, 04 April 2002 01:45 -0500 "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>
>>> Bear in mind that the financial situation at Qwest is bad.
>
>> Isn't that partially due to deals with Enron on which they
>> misrepresented sales numbers?
>
> Partially, but not primarily. The lead front page article in the
> Wednesday WSJ is about how badly mismanaged Qwest is. The gist of it
> is that US West was a sleepy RBOC with mediocre management, then Qwest
> which was what one might call a dot.fiber bubble company bought US
> West with fluffy puffy stock, then its incredibly arrogant and not
> very skillful management ran the company into the ground.
>
> If you don't get the Journal, the online edition allows me to mail
> copies of articles to individuals, so write me if you want a copy.
>
> --
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Joseph T. Klein +1 414 628 3380
Senior Network Engineer jtk@titania.net
Adelphia Business Solutions jtk@adelphiacom.net
"... the true value of the Internet is its connectedness ..."
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