WorldCom Suffers Internet Outage
Thu Oct 3, 1:41 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Struggling WorldCom Inc. , one of the major backbone providers of networks that route traffic over the Internet, suffered a major commercial Internet outage beginning at 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday, according to a company that monitors Internet performance.
The problems, believed to be caused by a software glitch, are disrupting service for WorldCom's many corporate customers, and may be slowing the Internet down for others, said Tom Ohlsson, vice president of marketing and business development at Matrix NetSystems, based in Austin, Texas.
WorldCom did not immediately return a call for comment.
As much as 65 percent to 70 percent of the world's Internet traffic runs across WorldCom's network, he said.
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