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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:21:54 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Poor connection to WC
Message-ID:  <199603131221.NAA00432@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:58:56 -0800
References:  <1754.826613936@time.cdrom.com>

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>Not even close.  You don't know the Bundespest, and comparing USWest's
>monopoly to the Deutsche Bundespost's is like comparing Pee-Wee Herman
>to Jeffrey Dahmer.. :-)

The german telecom is really a monster. Some figures:

basic telephon market (without cable tv, shops etc.)
sales: 20 billion US$
profit: 8 billion US$

(for 4 billion US$ you can buy Sun Microsystems)

credits (whole company): 80 billion US$
credit costs: 6 billion US$

Wolfram



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