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To: hunchback who wrote ()	8/16/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (3) of 198

news.com MCI network failure articles news.com MCI WorldCom, the No. 2 U.S. long distance telephone company, said its frame-relay data network was experiencing problems for the eighth straight day, as technicians struggled to fix Lucent Technologies software that runs the equipment. [...] ====================================================================== news.com The Chicago Board of Trade, the largest U.S. derivatives exchange, said the opening of its electronic trading system will be delayed indefinitely because of problems with an MCI WorldCom communications system. [...] ====================================================================== news.com ISPs say MCI outage could kill businesses [...] ====================================================================== news.com MCI WorldCom said today that it has restored its high-speed data network after a planned 24-hour outage in which it sought to correct problems that have caused havoc for ten days. [...] [Looks like they couldn't figure out what was going on so they powered everything down and back up hoping that this sort of problem doesn't happen again.] Clinton, Mississippi-based MCI WorldCom's outage followed a similar problem at AT&T last year. AT&T and other companies such as Qwest Communications International said last week that they gained customers as some disgruntled MCI WorldCom clients searched for new service providers. ====================================================================== Re: thread rules (1) Posting news reports in full text may be a copyright violation. (2) Short comments included with article excerpts indicates that the article is being used as scholarly discussion which supports the "fair use" copyright exemption better than just posting article excerpts alone.

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