[46559] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Qwest Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blitz)
Thu Apr 4 05:27:05 2002
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 05:26:23 -0500
To: johnl@iecc.com (John R. Levine)
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I'd appreciate a copy as well...
At 01:45 4/4/02 -0500, you 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.
>
>--
>John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869
>johnl@iecc.com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner,
>http://iecc.com/johnl,
>Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
