[77924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon wins MCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Feb 14 23:49:02 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:45:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502142336120.8534@web1.mmaero.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Jon Lewis wrote:
>
> 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.
uhm, thats the '70 billing departments' ... or so said the SEC's info
about how many billing systems were 'integrated' during the
bernie-dynastic-times.
