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Technology Stocks : WCOM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (11112)	7/3/2002 7:19:14 AM
From: John Curtis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11568

Frank: ...considering that they got their start as an international callback play back in the late eighties in a small converted funeral parlor in the Bronx.... LOL! Exactly. It sounds like you're like me where IDT is concerned. That is....following them from an industry standpoint (not from an investment). I knew as soon as it got out that they were snuffling around WCOM that they'd inevitably make a low-ball bid. Let's seee.....$5 Billion for all local access in tier 1 cities domestically as well as internationally (probably along with the OC level trunking tying them together?). And since in the early days of MFS Intelenet such as UUNet/AOL and others were sucking up much of the capacity being installed and thus an automatic large customer base.... Yeah.....$5 Billion seems about right. (NOT!) Anyway, as I've stated in an earlier post I can't see WCOM giving up their crown jewel of access. If they do....well....games over because all they'll be is a shadow of their former selves and very unlikely to survive. John~