Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber
Hit Delete now... off topic, but significant for ALL... http://interactive.wsj.com/edition/current/summaries/front.htm In case you can't get to the page, Worldcom this morning announced a bid to buy MCI out from under BT. Also announce a deal to acquire all of Brooks Fiber. Rodney Joffe Chief Technology Officer Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company http://www.genuity.net
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Doesn't Bill Gates own some portion of the WC conglomerate? It sures smells like a BG thing. Microsquish owns the desktop/Servers and WC owns the Internet/ Telecommunications, and Bill owns them both? Thrills, gotta love the advances we would see then, mainly in price.... - -Chris At 05:38 AM 10/1/97 -0700, Rodney Joffe wrote:
Hit Delete now... off topic, but significant for ALL...
http://interactive.wsj.com/edition/current/summaries/front.htm
In case you can't get to the page, Worldcom this morning announced a
bid
to buy MCI out from under BT. Also announce a deal to acquire all of Brooks Fiber.
Rodney Joffe Chief Technology Officer Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company http://www.genuity.net
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Doesn't Bill Gates own some portion of the WC conglomerate?
It sures smells like a BG thing.
Microsquish owns the desktop/Servers and WC owns the Internet/ Telecommunications, and Bill owns them both? Thrills, gotta love the advances we would see then, mainly in price....
He used to own a sizeable chunk of UUNET, back before they got bought by MFS and then Worldcom. His chunk these days probably isn't so sizeable any more. Steve Mansfield steve@nwnet.net NorthWestNet Network Engineer 425-649-7467
Sizeable? ~17% was rather significant. Anyone know whether Microsoft's stake was bought out or carried over when UU sold to MFS? -- Jesse On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Steve Mansfield wrote:
Doesn't Bill Gates own some portion of the WC conglomerate?
It sures smells like a BG thing.
Microsquish owns the desktop/Servers and WC owns the Internet/ Telecommunications, and Bill owns them both? Thrills, gotta love the advances we would see then, mainly in price....
He used to own a sizeable chunk of UUNET, back before they got bought by MFS and then Worldcom. His chunk these days probably isn't so sizeable any more.
Steve Mansfield steve@nwnet.net NorthWestNet Network Engineer 425-649-7467
Worldcom this morning announced a bid to buy MCI out from under BT.
No URLs yet. Probably tomorrow at http://www.wcom.com
Also announce a deal to acquire all of Brooks Fiber.
see http://www.wcom.com/press/100197_1.html --Kent
http://www.wcom.com/press/current.html Can anyone suggest a good discussion list for this? I've got some concerns about the possible anti-trust effects of this whole deal. Joel Sadler Ex-Indentured Servant null@alaska.net On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Kent W. England wrote:
Worldcom this morning announced a bid to buy MCI out from under BT.
No URLs yet. Probably tomorrow at http://www.wcom.com
At 11:59 AM -0800 10/1/97, Joel Sadler - Indentured Servant wrote:
http://www.wcom.com/press/current.html
Can anyone suggest a good discussion list for this? I've got some concerns about the possible anti-trust effects of this whole deal.
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