Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet

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http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html

well, this should be interesting.

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http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html

well, this should be interesting.

Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all
of the internet stuff..

I am not sure I like it.. it looks as though they are setting the industry
up for something.

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The question is (from my confusion) is, since this article was released in
London, does 'domestic' imply Europe, or the US?

Another words, was the *entire* MCI backbone sold to C&W, or only the
European portion of it (is there even a European portion of it?)

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html

well, this should be interesting.

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What'ya mean?

Thats' the nature of the entire corporate theatre of this industry. There
is so much incest and double dealing that it makes Tom Clancy novels lame
in comparison....

M.

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Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980528113841.16667G-100000@iago.nac.net>

The question is (from my confusion) is, since this article was released in
London, does 'domestic' imply Europe, or the US?

You could find another article on NY TIMES.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/f/AP-MCI-Internet-Sale.html

taka

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I think the news.com article makes it pretty clear that the ENTIRE MCI
Internet operation (backbone, peering, 15,000 interconnections) were
all sold for $625M.

I guess C&W can dump its UUNet customer connections now.

-Deepak.

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Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all
of the internet stuff..

Oops.

MCI will sell to Cable & Wireless its Internet backbone service
business comprising all of its 22 domestic nodes, 15,000
interconnection ports, and more than 40 ongoing peering agreements.

That's certainly isn't how _I_ interpret that paragraph. I can't
imagine them selling the IP business.

Cheers,
-- jra