Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet

Thu May 28 17:52:40 UTC 1998

curtis at lamere.net wrote:
>Excuse me for posting this here, but this is from news.com.  It
>basically says CWIX.NET gets the whole shooting match. Layer and all.

Not quite.  The joint press release (from MCI:
http://www.mci.com/news-news/headline-896341261.shtml ; from C&W:
http://www.cwplc.com/press/1998/p98may28.htm ) both state that

   Initially, MCI will provide the underlying telecommunications
   transport services supporting the Cable & Wireless backbone and will
   provide additional services as required by Cable & Wireless.  

Pete
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