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Article #620160Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: John Levine
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:15
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:15
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In article <e02d6925-2452-47c7...@googlegroups.com> you write: >On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 8:55:53 AM UTC-7, jmfbahciv wrote: >> Remember the >> two long distance companies which almost went bankrupt (I can't recall >> their names). > >Was one of them Sprint? Jeez, doesn't anyone remember anything. The high profile bankruptcy was Worldcom which had merged with MCI and went bankrupt in 2002, and CEO Bernie Ebbers went to jail. The corpse of MCI was later merged into Verizon. One of Sprint's predecessors United Telephone went bankrupt in 1937, but that doesn't count. Sprint's had a lot of exciting financial adventures, but the modern company has not gone bankrupt. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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