This would mean that Worldcom has a very large percentage of the Internet traffic. Does everyone think they will let this go through, without breaking out the Internet part of the deal? What about selling the InternetMCI portion off to someone to keep a balance of carriers of the Internet traffic and not let it be controlled by one company? I can think of few companies that could buy the InternetMCI portion, but do they want in the game? I would think a few of them are forward thinking enough to know what that could mean. So, who will start the biding, anyone with 4 or 5 billion, laying around? Several.... Gary Zimmerman -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Stratton [SMTP:nathan@robotics.net] Sent: Monday, November 10, 1997 4:07 PM To: Steve Carter Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid? ; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Steve Carter wrote:

Pessimist Nathan? I seems to me that it would be out of character for Worldcom to integrate MCI. They didn't with MFS, ANS or UUNet. Different market targets?

-Steve.

I don't think so. They may try different target markets, but the cost savings of merging the internet networks is very big. Yes it is a good idea to make MFS and UUNet separate divisions, because they work better that way. I think you will see MFS + Brooks as one unit and UUNet + ANS + internetMCI as one unit. P.S. In that last messages I said that internetMCI was using Stratacom, they are actually using Fore. -Nathan