It does not provide Internet access: That function is outsourced to UUNet Technologies and others.

FORBES: PeoplePC Wants Public To Foot Expenses

But WorldCom Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers has said he will scuttle the entire Sprint purchase before he will spin off Uunet.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

But WorldCom's CEO Bernard Ebbers has said that he will scuttle the entire Sprint purchase before he will spin off Uunet.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

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.

FORBES: "We're On A Collision Course"

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.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

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.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

He backed off, and Uunet later became part of WorldCom.

FORBES: "We're On A Collision Course"

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.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

But in Internet traffic, the big guys--WorldCom's Uunet, Sprint Corp.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

Without Uunet, a Net service can slow to a crawl.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

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.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

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.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies

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.

CNN: Next wave of attacks against spammers underway

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.

FORBES: Forget the Garage

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.

FORBES: The up and comers

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.

FORBES: Forget the garage