[10700] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: "Fed **deal** may speed MCI's ATM rollout" (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brock N. Meeks)
Sun Mar 6 03:52:55 1994
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 17:25:41 -0800 (PST)
From: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.sf.ca.us>
To: Doug Humphrey <digex@ss1.digex.net>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9403041201.A19141-0100000@ss1.digex.net>
Nice try, Doug. But I assume by now you've seen the Dispatch article on
-- well I'll be damned -- Sprint's official protest, indeed filed by
their legal dept.
You're right about $50 million being small potatoes to these carriers,
but it isn't about the money. Not a big. It's *all* about the
visability and the *bragging* rights on this contract. Those are worth
potenitally hundreds of millions to these companies as they get to tout
the fact that *they* are running the govt.'s version of the information
superhighway.
Brock Meeks
reporter
Communications Daily
