Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Thu May 28 16:37:19 UTC 1998


God, this is all so DERANGED.

MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that
Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The
result seems understandable.

Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a
great conspiracy...

.pm

Marc Hurst writes:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 May 1998, James D. Butt wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> 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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