Re: MCI Sucks: BEWARE!!!

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From: Sir Topham Hatt
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 00:00

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David Fisher (David.Fisher@InternetMCI.com) wrote:
: 
: MCI won an contract to run the entire NSFNET backbone and in 1994, 
: upgraded the network to 45MBPS, back then there were few commertial 
: providers, MCI didn't even have a commercially released service (product) 
: announced.

Speaking of professionalism. You're either intentionally exagerating
or outright lying.  The contract run the NSFnet backbone was awared
to MERIT.  MCI was not elligible to even bid by themselves.  MCI
and IBM partnered with the Michigan folk.  The major factor in
the award by the way was price.  The top three finishers in that
RFP were about equivelent tecnhically (actually, the NYSER (SPRINT/
CISCO) bid was probably the technically finest but came at a cost
of 3 times the Merit bid).

I know, I was one of the panelists that awarded that contract.
MCI wasn't perse awarded the upgrade contracts except that Merit
continued to buy the long haul lines from them.  Of course then
AN(u)S came by and ripped off the infrastructure.

It's nice revisionist history to give MCI 100% credit for all this.

However, Mr. Fisher, despite the fact that this is the USENET, you
should learn that flaming the customers will not improve their
(or other potential customers) impressions of your customer
service.  Perhaps, you should let Ms. Aun handle this as she
has handled some of the other Internet tongue lashings that
MCI has recieved recently.
 

-Ron

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From: lr@access4.digex.net (Sir Topham Hatt)
Subject: Re: MCI Sucks: BEWARE!!!
Date: 1996/03/09
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