[83748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Aug 23 17:43:20 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:42:51 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Richard Z <rzheng@gmail.com>
> I think that big carriers have successfully convinced regulators that
> the telecom deregulation in late nineties was bad for the industry.
does not take much convincing in dc that what is good for big business
is good for america these days.
> It certainly destroyed quite a few big companies, e.g. MCI and AT&T.
no. they did brilliant jobs of destroying themselves, in two very
different ways.
randy
