[77937] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Verizon wins MCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chad Skidmore)
Tue Feb 15 11:59:03 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:33:20 -0800
From: "Chad Skidmore" <cskidmore@go180.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
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> From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org]=20
> Posted At: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:38 PM
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> Conversation: Verizon wins MCI=20
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> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
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> > > Verizon wins the battle for MCI, pays < 7B.
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> > 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?
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> But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was? First=20
> thing Verizon will have to do is fire the entire billing=20
> department and replace them with people/systems that can=20
> generate correct bills and send them to the correct customers.
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Then the question is can Verizon actually generate an accurate and
readable bill. :)
Based on our experience it will just be inaccurate and unreadable in
new and unusual ways.
Chad
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