• Consider not signing up for any new WorldCom services until its financial situation is clearer and it is guaranteed to get some bank credit. • Sign six-month extensions for expiring contracts. • For Web sites hosted by WorldCom or Digex, start duplicating data and considering alternative hosts. • Evaluate how a second Internet service provider (ISP) might be used for Internet access as well as for wide area network (WAN) needs by deploying a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Remember to turn on IPsec when creating a VPN.

• Where there is no alternative ISP, order backup dialup ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) services for key locations, These can be installed in a couple of weeks, WorldCom customers should also document all their WorldCom services and total networking needs so that they can issue formal requests for proposals if needed, WorldCom's troubles provide opportunities for other carriers, particularly kisomo iself iphone 6s / 6 selfie case - white big incumbents and those with lower debt, AT&T, Sprint and regional Bell operating companies will benefit in the United States, BT Group should pick up considerable business in Europe, Equant and Infonet should do well internationally..

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Overstating profits by nearly $4 billion and cutting kisomo iself iphone 6s / 6 selfie case - white more than 20 percent of its work force is disastrous news for WorldCom but enterprises should not plan to jump ship yet, Overstating profits by nearly $4 billion and cutting more than 20 percent of its work force is disastrous news for WorldCom--which could face bankruptcy--but enterprises should not plan to jump ship yet, See news story:WorldCom customers scrambleAdditional information will doubtless come out, When the situation has been clarified, several (or all) of the following could have happened..

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