It does not provide Internet access: That function is outsourced to UUNet Technologies and others.
But WorldCom Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers has said he will scuttle the entire Sprint purchase before he will spin off Uunet.
But WorldCom's CEO Bernard Ebbers has said that he will scuttle the entire Sprint purchase before he will spin off Uunet.
He also looked at buying into Uunet, a fast-growing Internet backbone operator that would have brought rich returns, but the owners wanted to retain control.
Uunet alone zaps perhaps half of the world's Net bits, and 30% of all websites transmit their pages on Uunet's 480, 000 kilometers of fiber.
Uunet alone zaps perhaps half of the world's Net bits, and 30% of all Web sites transmit their pages on Uunet's 300, 000 miles of fiber.
That is because Uunet and the few other giant data haulers that dominate Internet traffic don't have the fat, 45-megabit lines Brown would like in Albuquerque.
But in Internet traffic, the big guys--WorldCom's Uunet, Sprint Corp.
An e-mail from one of Brown's clients must pass through a poky, clogged--though mostly free--"public" access point in California, rather than zip along the snazzy but expensive Uunet hub.
An e-mail from one of Brown's clients must pass through a poky, clogged--but mostly free--"public" access point in California, rather than zip along the snazzy but expensive Uunet hub.
John Bradshaw, director of customer security at UUNet, described a new type of spam that appears innocuous at first, but that shows that spammers know how to manipulate the Internet.
Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access-devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI Worldcom, before most people had heard of the Web.
Kapor was one of the earliest investors in two Internet Access firms, Performance Systems International (now PSINet) and UUNet Technologies, which merged with MFS Communications, which in turn was sold to WorldCom.
Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI WorldCom, before most people had heard of the web.
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