XO to Fight Global Crossing Sale as Creating Backbone Vise

摘要

An XO Communications executive said the company will fight Level 3’s proposed $3 billion nacquisition of Global Crossing. “Everybody’s caught up in the AT&T-T-Mobile merger,” said nXO Vice President Heather Gold. “The way we see the Level 3-Global Crossing merger, in a nvery, very short period of time this will have a much bigger impact." The combined company nwould hold 55 percent of the tier 1 Internet backbone market and be three times as large as nthe runner-up, NTT, she said.