Worldcom's Frame Relay Down

Jim Trocki writes "MCI/Worldcom's frame relay network has been hosed for at least 8 days now. Read the story. This is the recorded message that is heard on Worldcom's tech support line: 'In accordance with our plan to repair the instability in one of our frame relay network platforms, we have taken our domestic frame relay platform out of service for a 24 hour period, from noon Saturday to noon Sunday Eastern standard time. As a result, your frame relay service will not be available for traffic.' " Here is the MCI Worldcom web page on the situation. The news.com article says that this outage might cut into their profits. It seems this is quite a severe outage...