At the end of 1995, according the the FCC, the major interexchange carriers had the following amounts of fiber deployed: Carrier Route Miles Fiber Miles AT&T 46,083 1,417,600 MCI 23,160 567,400 Sprint 22,996 467,200 WorldCom 11,127 266,200 Other 4,223 58,900 I believe new statistics for 1996 have just been released, but I don't have those numbers handy at the moment. Try www.fcc.gov, and look for a report called "Fiber Deployment Update" or somesuch. Qwest is a relative newcomer (just went public) which has been building out their own fiber network with the intent of reselling it to other carriers. Qwest also bought a boatload of fiber from Williams Pipeline Co. some time ago, and signed a contract with Williams which locked Williams out of the business of deploying new fiber until early 1998 (Williams runs fiber through unused oil and gas pipelines, having discovered that fiber optics is more of a growth industry than schlepping around fermented dinosaurs). Regards, -Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Charles Sprickman [SMTP:spork@inch.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 6:19 PM To: Scott Landman Cc: nathan@netrail.net; bnite@tremere.ios.com; mpearson@games-online.com; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Scott Landman wrote:
If fibers being cut is the culprit here, does going with a supplier like Qwest make sense because their fibers are running down railroad right of
I was under the impression that there was one fiber giant that actually owns its own fiber, and that its name is AT&T... Who is Qwest???
Anyone have any stats on how much MCI, Sprint, WCom actually own?
Charles
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