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Re: NPR morning news apparently just reported...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri May 23 12:49:44 2003
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 09:47:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0305231639000.16293@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> this is the often reported "mci is building iraq a brand spankin' new
> cell phone network" I believe.
Yeah, upon reading the articles, it looks like the contract is $45M or
less for nineteen GSM cells. The controversy surrounding it seems to be
twofold: first, that WorldCom has never built a cellular network; second
that it's being rewarded ahead of other telcos which haven't (yet) been
busted for accounting fraud.
-Bill
