[bbunix]

Verio might be a good match... NTT could afford it... and make them a player.

[tbyehl]

Verio was a player. The largest by some measures. Then they exercised an option to force NTT to buy them out when the tech stock market tanked and have barely been heard from since.

* I was in the first wave of NTT/Verio lay-offs.