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Re: [PLUG] OT, what happened to MFN?
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Interesting maps of the philly system at abovenet.com
Hard to tell on the map but I wonder if that is the fiber that is laid
along the old Reading-SEPTA Newtown line through Churchville.
Doug
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 bergman@merctech.com wrote:
>
> In the message dated: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:09:27 EDT,
> The pithy ruminations from John Von Essen on
> <[PLUG] OT, what happened to MFN?> were:
>
> =>
> => Maybe someone on this list worked for them?
>
> Yep. First for SiteSmith, then we were bought by MFN--back when the stock was
> supposed to be worth over $1B for the purchase... Then came the giant sucking
> sound that was the Internet in 2001, and some "financial irregularities"...
>
> I've got a stock certificate around somewhere...maybe it'll be useful as
> wallpaper or to start a fire or something.
>
> =>
> => Is MFN (Metromedia Fiber Network) still around in Philly?
>
> Dunno. They had scads (the technical term, of course) of dark fiber all over
> the place. There's probably still some lying around under your local sidewalk.
>
>
> =>
> => I think the company went bankrupt, but somebody must have taken
> => ownership of all their fiber?!
>
> Actually, they declared bancruptcy and reorganized, changed their name to
> AboveNet (which they acquired earlier) and kept some of their assets.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.abovenet.com
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AboveNet
>
>
> Mark
>
> =>
> => thanks
> => john
> =>
> =>
>
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