I think the news.com article makes it pretty clear that the ENTIRE MCI Internet operation (backbone, peering, 15,000 interconnections) were all sold for $625M. I guess C&W can dump its UUNet customer connections now. -Deepak. On Thu, 28 May 1998, Al Reuben wrote:
The question is (from my confusion) is, since this article was released in London, does 'domestic' imply Europe, or the US?
Another words, was the *entire* MCI backbone sold to C&W, or only the European portion of it (is there even a European portion of it?)
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Hui-Hui Hu wrote:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
well, this should be interesting.
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