Word: mci
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...Lilliputian 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...
...been reached during the last days of the Carter Administration. Ma Bell's competitors immediately voiced fears that Carter officials had made too many concessions to A T & T in their rush to wrap up the case before the new President took office. Said William McGowan, chairman of MCI Telecommunications, which is battling Bell for the long-distance telephone market: "It sounds like a slap on the wrist." Added Herbert Jasper, Washington lobbyist for a group of telecommunications companies: "It appears to be a free ride...
More than 40 firms, including MCI, Litton Industries and Southern Pacific Communications, have filed their own suits against A T & T. Bell was eager to settle the Government case so that evidence the Justice Department had been gathering would not be revealed in court and later used in the private suits...
Daris J. Davis, the other man charged with rape in the Business School incident, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years imprisonment at MCI Walpole State Penitentiary, after pleading guilty at Suffolk Superior Court...