Word: mci
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MCI and Nextel hook up to compete with AT&T in cellular phones...
Five years ago, MCI Communications was approached by two eager entrepreneurs with an offer to take a 20% stake in a risky venture. Their plan was to transform a local radio-dispatch system, used primarily by taxicabs and truckers, into a state-of-the-art cellular-telephone network. MCI declined the $40 million opportunity, preferring to concentrate on its core business: long- distance service...
...MCI Bypasses Local Bells...
...MCI Communications announced a $2 billion plan to connect corporate customers in 20 of the nation's biggest cities to its long-distance network directly -- bypassing the local Bell telephone companies and avoiding the access charges, now totaling $5 billion a year, that MCI pays them for their linkup. The move intensified calls in Washington for reduced regulation of the telecommunications industry...
...Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) investigated whether the HSTO-MCI lock on student service is illegal, according to Jol A. Silversmith '94, the group's former director. Federal law allows private telephone systems to restrict subscribers to a single carrier through the late 1990s, Silversmith says...