[GreenKeys] Western Union

[Paul Wills]

It's a shame they didn't hang on to their network for a few more years.  They missed 
the "opening up" of the communications industry by so little.

PDW


On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:42:15 -0600 (CST), jhhaynes at earthlink.net wrote :

> On the other hand, it seems (to this outside and uninformed observer)
> that W.U. never got as much benefit from its microwave system as it
> needed to.  Apparently they didn't get the TV network business.  Their
> own traffic was too small to justify such an expensive microwave network.
> If they had done what MCI did they might have made it pay; but MCI had
> to go through some tough legal battles to get their customers connected
> to their system.  Ultimately their microwave business lost in the same way
> their wire business did - AT&T had far more bandwidth * miles than W.U.
> ever had, so for AT&T serving digital communication was just a marginal
> cost.  Whereas for W.U. it was the whole game.
> 
> 
> jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
> 
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