So who the heck is "Wolfcon,"
...and where did they get 14.1 billion dollars? Does this mean that it's going to be even harder to deal with MFS? Humpf. -Bill ________________________________________________________________________________ bill woodcock woody@zocalo.net woody@applelink.apple.com user@host.domain.com
It's "Worldcom", the product of the acquisition of what was "WilTel" from the The Williams Companies by LDDS. (The right to use the WilTel name reverted to The Williams Companies six months after the transaction closed.)
...and where did they get 14.1 billion dollars?
According to the WSJ story this morning, they didn't get 14.1 billion dollars....they traded shares of Worldcom valued at 14.1 billion dollars at the (then) last market close in exchange for the stock of MFS.
Does this mean that it's going to be even harder to deal with MFS? Humpf.
-Bill
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I think MFS will stay as easy to deal with as they are now... Or as hard. They tend to be easier to deal with in some markets than in others... Avi
It's "Worldcom", the product of the acquisition of what was "WilTel" from the The Williams Companies by LDDS. (The right to use the WilTel name reverted to The Williams Companies six months after the transaction closed.)
...and where did they get 14.1 billion dollars?
According to the WSJ story this morning, they didn't get 14.1 billion dollars....they traded shares of Worldcom valued at 14.1 billion dollars at the (then) last market close in exchange for the stock of MFS.
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According to the WSJ story this morning, they didn't get 14.1 billion dollars....they traded shares of Worldcom valued at 14.1 billion dollars at the (then) last market close in exchange for the stock of MFS.
I'd bet that deal was as complicated to hold together as the net itself.
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:24:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
...and where did they get 14.1 billion dollars? Does this mean that it's going to be even harder to deal with MFS? Humpf.
I believe that it's WorldCom (formerly LDDS, nee Long Distance Dialing Service) and they are the 4th largest telephone service provider in the US. I believe that they bought WilTel last year and are, like MFS) in both the local and long-distance business. While WorldCom caters largely to businesses, they have been my home 1+ provider for some time. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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