Verizon wins MCI

Wed Feb 16 01:25:35 UTC 2005

----- Original Message -----
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william at elan.net>
Date: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:22 pm
Subject: Re: Verizon wins MCI

> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> 
> > I was set on QUUest or UUQwest for the new name, too. 
> 
> What, don't you like UUVeriNET even better? :)
> 
> > 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?

And what's left of ANS (the backbone back in the day), and the CompuServe Network.   The chain
of acquisitions of good companies prior to
the WCOM meltdown was stunning.

I was always fond of

   CompUUWorldCoMCI.net

---George Jones (CompuServe Network alumni)