Storyteller & Inventors
Dan's first employer
What is Illinois Bell / Ameritech?
Full name for company nicknamed MFS
What is Metropolitan Fiber Systems?
Company that acquired MFS
What is Worldcom?
Two companies whose CEOs went to jail
What are Worldcom and Qwest?
Three symbols Dan uses to describe the players in the sale of Zayo
A company that was nicknamed Ma Bell
What is AT&T?
Industry that Philip Anschutz was a titan of before building fiber networks
What is railroad?
Day that Level 3 was announced
What is April Fools' Day?
Name of company that purchased AT&T and then renamed itself AT&T
What is SBC?
Item that Dan threw on the table at MetroConnect panel with John Purcell and Bill LaPerch
What is Dan's wallet?
A fictional movie character that Dan compares himself to
Who is Forrest Gump?
Unique shortcut that WilTel used to build out their fiber lines
What are oil and gas pipelines?
Location Softswitch developer Shawn Lewis ran his XCom company from
What is a strip club?
The year that the telecom bubble burst
When was 2001?
Fiber company that was led by a female CEO (during the book's timeframe)
What is tw telecom?
He held a meeting about "The Internet"
Who is Jim Crowe?
Industries that John Kluge's Metromedia was involved in besides fiber (name at least 3)
What are movies, radio, restaurants, and a soccer team (MetroStars)?
Company that had a revolving door of CEOs between 1998 and 2000
What is Global Crossing?
Act that was passed in response to the fraud in the telecom industry
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The four main telecom companies that are left after the reconsolidation
What are AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, and Zayo?
Three internet backbones
What are BBN, UUNET, and PSINet?
Who is Steve Garofalo?
Internet backbone that never got acquired
PSINet
Company that survived the bust without declaring bankruptcy
What is Level 3?
Name three assets of CenturyLink (Lumen) - if you can name all 17 without cheating, you automatically win the game
What are the original CenturyLink, Qwest by CenturyLink, US West Communications via the merger with Qwest, Level 3, Global Crossing via Level 3 acquisition, Broadwing via Level 3 acquisition, WilTel 2 via Level 3 acquisition, Genuity via Level 3 acquisition, BBN via Level 3’s acquisition of Genuity, tw telecom via Level 3 acquisition, Xspedius via Level 3’s acquisition of tw telecom, GST via Level 3’s acquisition of tw telecom, TelCove via Level 3 acquisition, ICG Communications via Level 3 acquisition, Progress Telecom via Level 3 acquisition, Looking Glass via Level 3 acquisition, Embarq by CenturyLink?