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...optical cable will be jointly owned by 29 separate North American and European communications companies, among them AT&T, RCA, MCI, ITT and Western Union. AT&T, which has a 37% stake in the venture, is in charge of building the first 3,161 nautical miles of the cable, to a point in the Atlantic Ocean near Continental Europe. There the cable will fork into two lines, one each to Britain and France, which will be built by communications firms from those countries...
...business because AT&T offers better rates than MCI (ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Aug. 25). I know, because with two phones, I have one on each. If MCI and US Sprint want my long-distance dollars, they must offer price and service. So far, AT&T has the edge in both...
...assertion that MCI has been overcharging customers for uncompleted calls simply is not true. We do not begin to bill for a call after a certain number of seconds or a certain number of rings. We begin to bill when the call is answered and have very sophisticated means for determining when that occurs...
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...cases, access fees have jumped from about 10% of long-distance retailer revenues two years ago to more than 50% today. Moreover, the sudden price hikes are coming just as the carriers must further modernize their equipment to take advantage of their improved equal-access connection. US Sprint and MCI plan to invest billions in capital improvements...