MCI and BT had a long courtship. BT left MCI standing at the altar after neighborhoodMCI (a consumer last mile play) announced $400M in losses, twice. WorldCom swooped in after that.
jy On 12/08/2010, at 12:12 PM, jim deleskie <deles...@gmail.com> wrote: > CIP went with BT (Concert) I still clearly remember the very long > concall when we separated it from it BIPP connections. :) > > -jim > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Chris Boyd <cb...@gizmopartners.com> wrote: >> >> On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:13 PM, John Lee wrote: >> >>> MCI bought MFS-Datanet because MCI had the customers and MFS-Datanet had >>> all of the fiber running to key locations at the time and could drastically >>> cut MCI's costs. UUNET "merged" with MCI and their traffic was put on this >>> same network. MCI went belly up and Verizon bought the network. >> >> Although not directly involved in the MCI Internet operations, I read all >> the announcements that came across the email when I worked at MCI from early >> 1993 to late 1998. >> >> My recollection is that Worldcom bought out MFS. UUnet was a later >> acquisition by the Worldcom monster (no, no biases here :-). While this was >> going on MCI was building and running what was called the BIPP (Basic IP >> Platform) internally. That product was at least reasonably successful, >> enough so that some gummint powers that be required divestiture of the BIPP >> from the company that would come out of the proposed acquisition of MCI by >> Worldcom. The regulators felt that Worldcom would have too large a share of >> the North American Internet traffic. The BIPP went with BT IIRC, and I >> think finally landed in Global Crossing's assets. >> >> --Chris >> > >
