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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among telephone companies (1980 revenues: $205 million), MCI has spent most of the past decade battling the industry's Gulliver, AT&T (1980 revenues: $50 billion). Not only that, but the tiny competitor has often been successful. Since its founding in 1968, MCI has steadily chipped away at Ma Bell's lucrative monopoly in long-distance business calls. Now, with the help of American Express, it is aggressively entering the long-distance market for household phone calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ma Bell's Rival | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Chicago. The calls are beamed by microwave among the 3,200 communities in the MCI network, then transferred to local Ma Bell lines and carried to customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ma Bell's Rival | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, MA.--Posters for the traditionally X-rated Registration Day movie shown at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) drew phone complaints from some students this term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Posters Draw Complaints | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, Ma.--Planned shipments of radioactive materials from Oak Ridge, Tennessee to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL) have caused local concern recently...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Radioactivity | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...Government regulatory reform said privately that neither the IBM nor the A T & T case had much merit. Reagan swept into office on a pledge to "get the Government off the backs" of both the public and businesses. One of his first applications of that philosophy may be with Ma Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight Deal: Static over the AT&T accord | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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