Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet

Thu May 28 17:29:52 UTC 1998

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Farmer [mailto:pfarmer at strategies-u.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 1998 1:10 PM
> To: NANOG (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Cable & Wireless buys MCI Internet
> 
> 1) MCI will continue to provide raw transport (think of it as Layer 1
> stuff) for the traffic associated with its Internet wholesale
> ("backbone") services, at least for now.

Doesn't C&W have extensive North American fibre with more to come?  Anyone
care to guess how quickly C&W could move the traffic across to their own
transport?