Re: contracts and survivability of telecom sector

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:00:20 BST, michael.dillon@bt.com said:

In general, your upstream providers' operational networks and you, the customer connected to that operational network, are considered to be valuable assets so if a company falls into Chapter 11, there is a good chance that another company will acquire the assets. At the operational level, this is practically invisible until they start to consolidate data centers, prune unprofitable customers, etc.

One special case to consider - your provider gets taken over, and the new owner regrooms the combined fiber networks, such that formerly physically diverse paths no longer are...