AS286 effectively no more..

Thu Jul 25 09:38:50 UTC 2002

>> Uhm, how many pan-European _fiber_ owners is there? Not that many. Most
>> of  that over capacity was bought from KQ in Europe...
>
> COLT, Telia, Dynergy, BT Ignite [I think], Level 3, LDcom, others.
> KQ was excellent at marketing themselves as the only company who
> had pan-European fibre but the reality is far different.

Well, several of the companies you mention above where actually large 
customers of KQ. Although you are right in that they had pices of the 
network themselves. I agree with you that KQ marketing was a stroy in 
itslef, but for pan-European fiber assets, there are very few own it all.

- kurtis -