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Internet Giants Prepare for WorldCom 'Storm'
swight1701 writes: "MSNBC has an article about how E-bay and others are enacting contingency plans in case WorldCom goes under and no one steps in to run UUNet right away. Also talks extensively about how this is happening already in Europe with KPNQwest, who is telling their customers, 'During this week you can already expect outages to happen that we cannot solve any more. At the end of this week we expect that larger parts of the network will be down.' Can telecommunications giants realistically keep up with the public's need for ever-growing bandwidth without going bankrupt?"
Can telecommunications giants realistically keep up with the public's need for ever-growing bandwidth without going bankrupt?
So, I provide a service - demand for that service is increasing daily ...
Looks like I'll go bankrupt then!
Go figure
.... alternative communication technology like.... carrier pigeons and smoke signals - they are wireless so they MUST be good....
if you invest now you get FREE management monkeys and emu auditors
- HeXa
1) High demand for your product.
2)
3) Go bankrupt!
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results" - Winston Churchill
'Welcome to WorldCom - the pre-eminent global communications company for the digital generation.'
sign me up.
If the execs didn't didn't snarf every dollar as soon as it came in, and instead took $.99 of each buck and paid
guys like us to actually do the work, then they would have a viable business, we'd be swimming in Negroponte-style
bandwidth and eventually, management would still be making a considerable pile of cash.
But no. They had to immediatly run off with all of the working capital and even that wasn't enough.
Once they got a taste of $10Mil a year, they wanted to see what $100Mil felt like. Life begins at half a billion.
Filtered down from the top, the exec VP's want a proportional cut, the junior VP's, and so on.
Now there's no money to run and grow the network. Engineers, wire pullers, suppliers, all the way down the line,
are out of a job so there's nobody with enough cash to buy services. Thus the perception of over-capacity.
Oh well, instead of making a living wage, we C programmers and network engineers can be grounds keepers
and security for the elite for eight bucks an hour. The elite, including our government, think that things worked out quite well.
Thanks dubya, good job. There is hope however. Many of us will be able to enlist in the national guard so we can
police the homeless tent cities that will be springing up next year when the banks start failing. Good work if you can
get past the brutality you'll be showing to your fellow "citizens".