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AS3561 (InternetMCI) was once the number 1 ISP, by almost every measure that existed. The marketplace has not been kind to C&W since they bought AS3561. Why isn't Adam Smith's Invisible Hand rewarding C&W? Is C&W number 5 or 6 these days?

I think all that shows is that a well-engineered network does not sell itself. Those MCI sales and TSC people did a bangup job of taking care of data customers, from my limited point of view at the time. When the Transaction occurred, overnight my company's account team went from being 3 competent people in a local office to someone who worked out of her house on the other side of the state.