I agree. We just turned up an OC3 with them the day before yesterday, with no issues. Diane Turley Sr. Network Engineer Xspedius Communications Co. 636-625-7178 -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Henry Linneweh Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:40 PM To: Drew Weaver; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: MCI refusing to turn up OC-3 due to katrina relief efforts? that would be very uncharacteristic of MCI to do that, and they do have a katria team down in that area working on restoring all services. Your client would know via his sales rep what the implementation team is doing and pressures would be brought to deal with that kind of problem, I think someone is clowning you -Henry --- Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> wrote:

Howdy, has anyone heard of MCI putting orders on hold in order to help with the Katrina relief effort? We ordered an OC-3 from them about 2 months ago and they've missed the install deadline 4 times now. The reseller we're working with said that they claim that they can't turn it up due to Katrina relief efforts. The local loop is installed and the port is connected, they just cant turn the order up.

Has anyone else heard this or should I assume (as usual) the reseller is BS'ing me?

-Drew