Myths about Internet growth

An anonymous reader writes "An article in The Economist outlines WorldCom's role in starting the myth that Internet traffic doubles every 100 days. This helped inflate the telecoms bubble."

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That was a good idea....

[eyeareque]

Was it illegal for WorldCom to lie about the percentage of traffic that hit their network? Obviously it is in a grey area, and being that WorldCom had a minor monopoly it was easy for them to do. Business is a dog eat dog world. It's interesting to see how creative businesses will get when they want to throw off their compeditors. It makes you stop and wonder if WorldCom gave out correct information how much money would have been saved by their compeditors, and who would not have gone bankrupt.

Re: Not to troll, but..

[RebelTycoon]

So are you a giver or a taker? Speak up you homo!