Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html well, this should be interesting. --- Tung-Hui Hu (HH26) Network admin and poet hhui@arcfour.com
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
well, this should be interesting.
Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all of the internet stuff.. I am not sure I like it.. it looks as though they are setting the industry up for something. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James D. Butt 'J.D.' Network Engineer Voice 319-557-8463 Network Operations Center Fax 319-557-9771 MidWest Communications, Inc. Pager 319-557-6347 241 Main St. noc@mwci.net Dubuque, IA 52001 jbutt@mwci.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive defensively. Buy a tank.
On Thu, 28 May 1998, James D. Butt wrote:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
well, this should be interesting.
Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all of the internet stuff..
I am not sure I like it.. it looks as though they are setting the industry up for something.
What'ya mean? Thats' the nature of the entire corporate theatre of this industry. There is so much incest and double dealing that it makes Tom Clancy novels lame in comparison.... M.
God, this is all so DERANGED. MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The result seems understandable. Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a great conspiracy... .pm Marc Hurst writes:
On Thu, 28 May 1998, James D. Butt wrote:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
well, this should be interesting.
Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all of the internet stuff..
I am not sure I like it.. it looks as though they are setting the industry up for something.
What'ya mean?
Thats' the nature of the entire corporate theatre of this industry. There is so much incest and double dealing that it makes Tom Clancy novels lame in comparison....
M.
Nope Perry....nothing deranged... You can read the full press releases as issued by both MCI and CW here: http://www.isr.net/NETNEWS/netnewsmain.html rgds red At 12:37 PM 5/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
God, this is all so DERANGED.
MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The result seems understandable.
Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a great conspiracy...
.pm
Marc Hurst writes:
On Thu, 28 May 1998, James D. Butt wrote:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
well, this should be interesting.
Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all of the internet stuff..
I am not sure I like it.. it looks as though they are setting the
industry
up for something.
What'ya mean?
Thats' the nature of the entire corporate theatre of this industry. There is so much incest and double dealing that it makes Tom Clancy novels lame in comparison....
M.
On 05/28/98, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
God, this is all so DERANGED.
MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The result seems understandable.
It would if MCI was selling off the entire Internet segment of the company. Right now it looks like they're actually only selling a tiny chunk (probably the chunk that's got "Internet" in the name as opposed to "data services"), so it's pretty clearly just a token effort -- but it might work, leaving MCI Worldcom free to screw us all over. I'm not saying they /will/. But it's looking like it won't be too long until they /can/.
Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a great conspiracy...
Nah, this is pretty boring as conspiracies go. -- J.D. Falk <jdfalk@vix.com> Vixie Enterprises http://www.vix.com/ *** No more time to wait! http://www.tigerden.com/junkmail/redalert.html ***
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 10:35:17AM -0500, James D. Butt wrote:
Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all of the internet stuff..
Oops.
MCI will sell to Cable & Wireless its Internet backbone service business comprising all of its 22 domestic nodes, 15,000 interconnection ports, and more than 40 ongoing peering agreements.
That's certainly isn't how _I_ interpret that paragraph. I can't imagine them selling the IP business. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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.
--- Tung-Hui Hu (HH26) Network admin and poet hhui@arcfour.com
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Atheism is a non-prophet organization. I route, therefore I am. Alex Rubenstein, alex@nac.net, KC2BUO, ISP/C Charter Member Father of the Network and Head Bottle-Washer Net Access Corporation, 9 Mt. Pleasant Tpk., Denville, NJ 07834 Don't choose a spineless ISP! We have more backbone! http://www.nac.net -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
From: Al Reuben <alex@nac.net> Subject: Re: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 11:39:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980528113841.16667G-100000@iago.nac.net> alex> alex> The question is (from my confusion) is, since this article was released in alex> London, does 'domestic' imply Europe, or the US? You could find another article on NY TIMES. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/f/AP-MCI-Internet-Sale.html taka
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.
--- Tung-Hui Hu (HH26) Network admin and poet hhui@arcfour.com
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Atheism is a non-prophet organization. I route, therefore I am. Alex Rubenstein, alex@nac.net, KC2BUO, ISP/C Charter Member Father of the Network and Head Bottle-Washer Net Access Corporation, 9 Mt. Pleasant Tpk., Denville, NJ 07834 Don't choose a spineless ISP! We have more backbone! http://www.nac.net -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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