Word: mci
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coming decades, AT&T, Vodafone and others expect to be competing for customers in places like China and India in the same way they compete today for U.S. and European callers. The mid-dinner telemarketing call ("Mr. Jones, I'd like to tell you about a terrific deal from MCI") is about to go global...
...long distance and local services. That means one bill for all five services; consumers will also be allowed to choose the package that fits them. Further, telecom analysts say that the long distance market is in need of some new blood to fuel competition in the wake of the MCI-Sprint merger. Eventually there may be only a handful of major firms offering all these services, but from a consumer choice standpoint we're clearly better off than we were in the days of Ma Bell...
...phone gods would rather focus on things like last week's $115 billion merger of MCI WorldCom and Sprint. It's a record-size deal befitting record-size egos and has implications for Wall Street, where they're trying to identify tomorrow's survivors--and the targets those companies will swallow today. If you want to play, look for AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Bell Atlantic and SBC to survive; their targets include many small cable and wireless companies, along with such big outfits as Bell South, Global Crossing, Cincinnati Bell, Qwest and Nextel...
...deal at all. Antitrust concerns have been raised because an important competitor is being removed. But with Internet and regional Bell companies creeping into the picture, long-distance rates--now about as low as they've ever been--are unlikely to spurt higher. In the long run, the MCI WorldCom-Sprint combination may push us a little faster to telecom nirvana: one-stop shopping for local, long distance and wireless service; Internet access; and cable TV. Imagine all those connections in one jack (plus wireless) and a single bill based on how much data flows through the electronic spigot...
...Take MCI WorldCom's 10-10-220 long-distance service. You pay 99[cents] for the first 20 minutes--a bargain if you talk a lot. But you pay 99[cents] even if you're on the line for just a minute, making that rate one of the highest around. They don't tell you that. Here are some tips to keep your phone bill down...