BOOM! there goes WorldCom

Peter Leppik pleppik at mail.wessels.com
Thu Jul 17 14:05:54 UTC 1997


I was relying on an article which crossed my desk a few weeks ago, and
now I can't find it again.  My apologies if my memory failed me; it
wouldn't be the first time.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	johnl at iecc.com [SMTP:johnl at iecc.com]
>Sent:	Wednesday, July 16, 1997 8:43 PM
>To:	Peter Leppik
>Subject:	Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
>
>>carriers.  Qwest also bought a boatload of fiber from Williams Pipeline
>>Co. some time ago, and signed a contract with Williams which locked
>>Williams out of the business of deploying new fiber until early 1998
>>(Williams runs fiber through unused oil and gas pipelines, having
>>discovered that fiber optics is more of a growth industry than
>>schlepping around fermented dinosaurs).
>
>That is most bizarre.  Williams has been in the fiber business for
>ages, their fiber subsidiary was Wiltel which was the 4th or 5th
>largest IXC by volume (mostly resold to other carriers) when it was
>sold and merged into LDDS/Worldcom in early 1995.  Are you saying that
>after they spun off Wiltel, Williams went back into the fiber
>stringing business?
>
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