Word: mci
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal whose major negotiations took only two weeks, MCI Communications Corp., the entrepreneurial David to AT&T's Goliath in America's long-distance wars, sold 20% of its stock to the huge British Telecommunications PLC for roughly $4.3 billion and instantly acquired access to AT&T-like capital and global reach...
...1980s, AT&T, MCI and Sprint installed fiber-optic cable between major U.S. cities to increase the capacity of their long-distance telephone lines. At about the same time, the Federal Government, spurred by Gore, leased some of these lines to give scientists a high-speed data link to supercomputers funded by the National Science Foundation. These two networks, private and public, carry the bulk of the country's telephone and data traffic. In the superhighway system of the future, they are the interstate turnpikes...
Whipple said, however, that the presence of several large companies, including MCI and US Air, near Crystal City might attract other commercial tenants to the area. The city's proximity to the Pentagon could also help, she added...
...long-distance one, you just look up the number, pick up the phone and dial. To send a piece of E-mail across the country, by contrast, you have to know not only the recipient's number (or E- mail "address") but also what system he subscribes to (MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, CompuServe, Prodigy, Internet, etc.). To receive a message, you have to hook your computer to a modem, start a communications program, dial into the remote computer where your mail is stored and download the message into your computer...
...contain little computer programs that can guide the words, sounds or pictures through the thicket of interlocking computer networks. You just slap a name or address on a message and fire it off. Either it goes all the way to the recipient's personal computer (not merely to, say, MCI Mail's computer) or you are alerted that something has gone wrong...