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-----Original Message----- From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org] Posted At: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:38 PM Posted To: NANOG Conversation: Verizon wins MCI Subject: Re: Verizon wins MCI

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:

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Verizon wins the battle for MCI, pays < 7B.

I'm not financier, but this price seems rather low considering how large Worldcom is/used to be and that it includes all former UUNET, MCI, MFS, WCOM, etc. BTW - did this include Digex as well?

But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was? First thing Verizon will have to do is fire the entire billing department and replace them with people/systems that can generate correct bills and send them to the correct customers.

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Then the question is can Verizon actually generate an accurate and readable bill. :) Based on our experience it will just be inaccurate and unreadable in new and unusual ways. Chad - ---------------------------- Chad E Skidmore One Eighty Networks, Inc. http://www.go180.net 509-688-8180 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQhIkTk2RUJ5udBnvEQIIWQCdHIcqdckE2jSdZhnXrYfxfb+F2z4AnA2G 7bnkB7BcMzzUbvWFyI8Oc+2f =1Nhl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----