Word: mci
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Malone still sounds like a man looking for a telephone partner. In an interview this summer in Wired magazine, he hinted that he would love to offer cellular or long-distance phone service to his cable-TV customers. "If I can do a deal with an MCI, or AT&T or Sprint," the magazine quoted Malone as saying, "then I have stronger brands to play with than the ((Bells...
Savannah, Ga. MCI...
Even before the Oscars, offers streamed in steadily, but so far, Paquin's only other appearance onscreen has been in a series of TV commercials for the U.S. long-distance phone company MCI. Paquin's parents are taking a "wait- and-see attitude," according to her agent, Gail Cowan. "If they're hounded as they are at the moment, they'll probably say no. It's not a case of wanting the fame or the money -- that's not what's important to them. Anna...
...MCI had little choice. AT&T's $12.6 billion acquisition of McCaw Cellular Communications, which is still awaiting approval by regulators, put sufficient competitive pressure on MCI that it went out and found its own wireless partner. In an ironic twist, MCI exited the cellular-phone business eight years ago by selling its licenses to McCaw for $120 million. The company is also financially pressed to reduce the $5 billion in fees that it pays to the local Baby Bells for the right to connect to the local telephone network. A wireless system would allow MCI largely to bypass...
Richard Liebhaber, MCI's chief technology strategist, notes that the company is not alone in its support of Nextel. In addition to MCI, Nextel is backed by Motorola, Comcast, Northern Telecom, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone and Matsushita. "We're part of the telephone version of a dream team," says Liebhaber, dismissing Nextel naysayers. After all, once there was another start-up company that began as a radio dispatcher for truckers and also defied the odds: MCI itself...