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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EBAY... Running the internet?!? by Rooked_One · 2002-07-20 02:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I just signed up on ebay to sell a couple of things. I had no idea the difficulty they gave me just to sign up! They charge fees wherever little bit they can, and you can DAMN WELL expect that they will start charging our ISP's more, so we will get hit. Then again, worldcomm never would hire me... sure did fire a lot of my real life friends with that 800 person layoff. Boy, has that made my job search easier. =(