Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet

Thu May 28 17:28:55 UTC 1998

Nope Perry....nothing deranged...

You can read the full press releases as issued by
both MCI and CW here: http://www.isr.net/NETNEWS/netnewsmain.html 

rgds

red

At 12:37 PM 5/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>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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