[77923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon wins MCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Feb 14 23:38:39 2005
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:38:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502141116120.3084-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> > Verizon wins the battle for MCI, pays < 7B.
>
> I'm not financier, but this price seems rather low considering how large
> Worldcom is/used to be and that it includes all former UUNET, MCI, MFS,
> WCOM, etc. BTW - did this include Digex as well?
But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was? First thing Verizon
will have to do is fire the entire billing department and replace them
with people/systems that can generate correct bills and send them to the
correct customers.
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