Verizon wins MCI

Tue Feb 15 04:45:54 UTC 2005

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Jon Lewis wrote:

>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
> > > Verizon wins the battle for MCI, pays < 7B.
> >
> > I'm not financier, but this price seems rather low considering how large
> > Worldcom is/used to be and that it includes all former UUNET, MCI, MFS,
> > WCOM, etc. BTW - did this include Digex as well?
>
> But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was?  First thing Verizon
> will have to do is fire the entire billing department and replace them
> with people/systems that can generate correct bills and send them to the
> correct customers.

uhm, thats the '70 billing departments' ... or so said the SEC's info
about how many billing systems were 'integrated' during the
bernie-dynastic-times.