[77997] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon wins MCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gmjones@mitre.org)
Tue Feb 15 20:27:42 2005
From: gmjones@mitre.org
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:25:35 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Date: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:22 pm
Subject: Re: Verizon wins MCI
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>
> > I was set on QUUest or UUQwest for the new name, too.
>
> What, don't you like UUVeriNET even better? :)
>
> > 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?
And what's left of ANS (the backbone back in the day), and the CompuServe Network. The chain
of acquisitions of good companies prior to
the WCOM meltdown was stunning.
I was always fond of
CompUUWorldCoMCI.net
---George Jones (CompuServe Network alumni)
