Verizon wins MCI

Tue Feb 15 04:38:10 UTC 2005

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:

> > Verizon wins the battle for MCI, pays < 7B.
>
> I'm not financier, but this price seems rather low considering how large
> Worldcom is/used to be and that it includes all former UUNET, MCI, MFS,
> WCOM, etc. BTW - did this include Digex as well?

But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was?  First thing Verizon
will have to do is fire the entire billing department and replace them
with people/systems that can generate correct bills and send them to the
correct customers.

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