I believe Worldcom owns the majority of their fiber and I think all three lease fiber from Qwest. Qwest has fiber in the ground nation wide. I just don't know how much is lit.

---------- From: Charles Sprickman[SMTP:spork@inch.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 7:18 PM To: Scott Landman Cc: nathan@netrail.net; bnite@tremere.ios.com; mpearson@games-online.com; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Scott Landman wrote:

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If fibers being cut is the culprit here, does going with a supplier like Qwest make sense because their fibers are running down railroad right of

I was under the impression that there was one fiber giant that actually owns its own fiber, and that its name is AT&T... Who is Qwest???

Anyone have any stats on how much MCI, Sprint, WCom actually own?

Charles

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