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Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid?

  • From: Nathan Stratton
  • Date: Mon Nov 10 17:38:51 1997 
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Jun (John) Wu wrote:

> At the traffic level the above three are running, the savings may not
> be that much. Plus, instead of two links, one to MCI and one to UUNET,
> now the customer needs just one (MAYBE bigger) connection to this new
> provider. This is potentially a big loss in revenue.

Large customer who have a connection into say MCI and UUNet will just get
a connection into Worldcom and some other backbone provider. So yes I
think it will be a loss of revenue, but I think the customers will move
the other connection. 

> BTW, Gridnet is old Worldcom network, and is never merged with UUNET.

Heheheh, ya there are big reasons for this. 

-Nathan