Worldcomm network question

Thu Jun 27 17:55:16 UTC 2002

>>>>> "b" == blitz  <blitz at macronet.net> writes:

b> For that and other reasons, Wcom will be bailed out, at taxpayer expense if 
b> necessary, for national security reasons.

WorldCom still "runs" UUNET as well.  We carry a significant portion
of the backbone, and have many customers that have no other
connections.  With the bandwidth glut, I'm sure the core could survive
the sudden lack of UUNET, but there's a lot of edges that would get
unhappy.

There's no way they'd let us go Chapter 7, even if we wanted to.

ericb

b> At 18:19 6/26/02 -0400, you wrote:

>> Anyone have any ideas, speculation, or info on how adverse future of WCOM
>> would play out for ISPs and such? Among other things, WCOM is the preferred
>> provider of long-haul pipes for DoD.....that can't be good!!

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