Word: mci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-distance service, for example, they would have to inform them that the same service is available from other firms. The operating companies would also be required to offer AT&T rivals equal-quality access to the local phone system. That particularly appealed to a competitor like MCI Communications Corp. Said a jubilant MCI Chairman William McGowan: "To use our alternative long-distance service now, the customer must have a push-button phone and dial 22 digits. Those requirements should disappear and make competition more real...
...competitors, though, are ready to do battle. Earlier this month IBM completed a major restructuring of its marketing operation in order to be in a better position to maintain its computer market dominance. RCA, which already has four communications satellites above the earth, is likewise undaunted. Even tiny MCI, the long-distance phone company that has already launched a serious fight for some of AT&T's long-distance markets, is confident that it can stand up to the giant. Said MCI President V. Orville Wright: "We can beat them from the standpoint of cost. I see the possibility...
Later, a panoply of computer-age businesses in communications and data processing grew up that Bell could not enter. When upstart competitors like Washington, D.C.-based MCI began connecting their own equipment to AT&T transmission lines and going into business for themselves, Bell tried to block them. The Justice Department then charged that the company had conspired to monopolize telecommunications services in the U.S., a violation of the Sherman Antitrust...
Hanley has good reason to believe in juries. He represented the MCI Communications Corp. in its antitrust suit against AT&T. In June 1980 a jury found in favor of MCI, and the judge, as required by antitrust law, awarded the company treble damages amounting to $1.8 billion, making it the largest court judgment in U.S. history. It almost did not happen. For tactical reasons, MCI offered at one point to waive its right to a jury. AT&T declined the offer. Says AT&T Chief Trial Counsel George Saunders: "The American jury system is the worst there is, except...
...juror they would get that they hired a political polling firm to survey the attitudes of potential jurors toward each side's arguments. This technique, like those pioneered by liberal lawyers during the political trials of the 1970s, provided a demographic profile of the kind of jurors MCI should seek: self-made and competitive people, intelligent, first-and second-generation Americans, susceptible to arguments that mighty AT&T had been unfair to MCI...