Internet Giants Prepare for WorldCom 'Storm'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 20, 2002 @01:19AM from the sounds-wise-anyhow dept.

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?"

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time to invest in..... by H3XA · 2002-07-20 01:49 · Score: 3, Funny

.... 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. Re:time to invest in..... by Chanc_Gorkon · 2002-07-20 01:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Nah they reveal their SSID's on my car every morning. So they are insecure,
  
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  Gorkman
Re:Enjoy this life while you can by oPless · 2002-07-20 03:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Quick someone patent tents now!