UUNET has more than 1000 POPs worldwide!...the 250 that FTEL will
setup are only for 'major US cities...there will be more...
Extract from footnote of one of WorldCom releases :
wcom.com
...MCI, headquartered in Washington, D.C., offers the industry's
most comprehensive portfolio of global services. With 1996
revenues of $18.5 billion, MCI ranks as one of the world's largest
telecommunications companies. MCI is also the third largest
carrier of international voice traffic and operates one of the
world's most advanced Internet networks. Since its founding in
1968, MCI has been a leader in bringing the benefits of long
distance competition to businesses and consumers and is now
leading the charge to open U.S. local calling markets to competition.
WorldCom is a global telecommunications company. Operating
in more than 50 countries, the company is a premier
provider of facilities-based and fully integrated local, long distance,
international and Internet services. WorldCom's
subsidiary,UUNET Technologies, Inc., is an international provider
of Internet services with over 1,000 Points of Presence (POPs)
throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. WorldCom's World Wide Web address is
wcom.com. The common and depositary shares of WorldCom trade on the Nasdaq National Market (U.S.)
under the symbol WCOM and WCOMP, respectively.
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