Word: mci
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...hungry. Alarm company ADT gives away personal-security systems to battered women. Avon Products is helping fund the fight against breast cancer. Kimberly-Clark is building playgrounds in poor neighborhoods. Barnes & Noble promotes literacy. Coca-Cola is sponsoring local Boys and Girls Clubs. Nike, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, BellSouth, MCI and Starbucks all have pet social causes, as do countless other companies big and small. There are some 800 companies belonging to a San Francisco-based group called Business for Social Responsibility...
After years of confounding customers with a tsunami of new rates, packages and plans, big telephone companies like AT&T and MCI may have finally met their match: PhoneMiser. The palm-size PC adapter, below, links a personal computer to your telephone line and then uses software to calculate which of dozens of carriers offers the best deal at any given moment. All your phones on one line (and fax machines and Internet connections) can be simultaneously tied in to the program, which takes about a second to find the cheapest alternative and place the call. The system...
...biggest shareholder as well as chairman of Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), Mexico's no-longer-monopoly telephone company, Slim is planning to challenge American giants like AT&T and MCI on their home turf in 1997. The stakes: a bigger share in the $2.5 billion U.S.-Mexico long-distance market. "Our focus is toward Hispanic users in the U.S.," he says. The notion of taking on mammoth American firms is in keeping with the ambitions of multibillionaire Slim, widely assumed to be Mexico's richest man. His Grupo Carso holding company was already worth $1.2 billion in sales...
...silent before viewers are shown CompuServe's logo and a clincher which reads, "Looking for dependable Internet access? CompuServe. Get on with it." CompuServe isn't the only provider trying to get AOL's goat, not to mention its customers. Prodigy is planning a similar AOL-taunting spot and MCI got its shot in today when a spokesman commented, "We certainly think people should be on-line, not in line. If people can't get to the buffet table, they're not coming back." On Wednesday, AT&T made an announcement that AOL's woes have caused a large number...
Merging the buccaneering MCI culture with tradition-bound BT could prove tricky. To preserve MCI's independent spirit, Roberts will serve as co-chairman with BT chief Iain Vallance and remain at MCI headquarters in Washington...