It was said, for example, that Milken raised $ 1 billion for MCI Communications, then an upstart provider of long-distance telephone services, in the space of one hour on the telephone.

* 1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $ 37 billion merger ( the largest merger in US history at the time ).

* 1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.

* 1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.

Turkmenistan gained access to the Internet in 1997 through a contract with MCI Communications ( later became MCI WorldCom ).

** Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom ( the largest merger in U. S. history ).

* IDB Communications Group, Inc., a constituent of MCI Inc.

MCI, Inc. ( d / b / a Verizon Business ) is an American telecommunications subsidiary of Verizon Communications that is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.

The corporation was originally formed as a result of the merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications, and used the name MCI WorldCom followed by WorldCom before taking its final name on April 12, 2003 as part of the corporation's emergence from bankruptcy.

WorldCom grew largely by aggressively acquiring other telecommunications companies, most notably MCI Communications.

On November 4, 1997, WorldCom and MCI Communications announced their US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, making it the largest merger in US history.

On February 14, 2005, Verizon Communications agreed to acquire MCI for $ 7. 6 billion.

MCI Communications Corp. was an American telecommunications company that was instrumental in legal and regulatory changes that led to the breakup of the AT & T monopoly of American telephony and ushered in the competitive long-distance telephone industry.

MCI was founded as Microwave Communications, Inc. on 3 October 1963 with John D. Goeken being named the company's first president.

Following the FCC approval for MCI to begin building microwave relay stations between Chicago and St. Louis, Microwave Communications of America began to form subsidiary corporations and file applications with the FCC to create microwave relays between other city pairs.

In July 1971, MICOM was restructured into MCI Communications, and the restructured company began the process of absorbing the regional carriers into a single corporation.

In 1982, it sold this subsidiary to MCI Communications, which renamed it to MCI International and moved its headquarters from New York City to Westchester County, New York.

* Satellite Business Systems, a company founded by IBM, Aetna, Comsat, and later purchased by MCI that provided business-oriented satellite communications through its SBS fleet of geosynchronous satellites

A year later, MCI and Lockheed sought an additional source of funding and Comsat Corp. entered the venture which was renamed CML Satellite Corp.

In a twist of fate, IBM, which years later became the sole owner of SBS, sold the satellite subsidiary back to MCI in 1985, the $ 400 million " purchase price ", in effect providing MCI with the financing it needed to continue its expansion.

Starting with two Digital Tandem Switch ( DTS ) voice-switching systems designed specifically for them by the Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ( later a division of Rockwell International ), MCI began offering competitive circuit-switched direct-dial services using a combination of their own microwave circuits and leased circuits from AT & T made available to them from the landmark Carterfone decision.

The experiment proved successful and a third switch was purchased from Danray Corporation ( later purchased by Northern Telecommunications, now Nortel ) and installed in the MCI Chicago facility alongside the Collins system.

When GE later bought RCA and broke it up MCI purchased the RCA Global Communications division.

A later marketing strategy employed by MCI was the Friends & Family plan, an early type of loyalty program.

MCI Relay followed two months later with a Relay Operator system accessible through telnet.

It came out of bankruptcy renamed as " MCI " several months later.

The Verizon Center, located in the Washington, D. C. neighborhood of Chinatown, originally opened on on December 2, 1997 as the MCI Center, named after its sponsor, MCI Inc. Nearly a decade later, in January 2006, Verizon Communications purchases MCI Inc., and the arena's name is changed accordingly.

Blockbuster was later followed by a card by Neiman Marcus, and the Mobil Oil gas card which initially offered prepaid phone value provided by MCI.

" MCI later merged with Verizon.

The K-and D-rations were declared obsolete after World War II but canned wet rations in the form of the C-ration ( later the MCI ) continued until 1983, when they were replaced by the Meal, Ready-to-Eat ( MRE ).

It came out of bankruptcy renamed as MCI several months later.

Postwar Army supply plans for field rations relied solely on heavier canned wet rations, initially the C ration, later by similar canned rations such as the MCI, primarily to save additional cost of procurement and storage.

Satellite Business Systems, abbreviated as SBS, was a company founded by IBM, Aetna, Comsat ( and later wholly purchased by IBM and then subsequently sold to MCI ), that provided private professional satellite communications through its SBS fleet of FSS geosynchronous satellites, and was the first company to do so.

A year later, MCI and Lockheed sought an additional source of funding and Comsat Corp. entered the venture which was renamed CML Satellite Corp.

In July 1984, Comsat left SBS, and exactly a year later, Satellite Business Systems was sold to MCI.

It built two nationwide networks, which have since become their own companies ; the first was sold in 1995 to LDDS ( which would become WorldCom & then MCI ) and the second was spun off in 2001 as Williams Communications ( which would become WilTel Communications and later consolidate into Level 3 Communications ).

Capellas stepped down on November 12, 2002, just six months on the job, to become CEO of MCI Worldcom where he would lead its acquisition by Verizon.

< tt > 208. 128. 0. 0 / 11 </ tt >, a large CIDR block containing over 2 million addresses, had been assigned by ARIN ( the North American RIR ) to MCI.

In the mid 1970s, emerging long distance competitors like MCI and Sprint faced the same tactic of denying interconnection, which regulators quashed, followed by a series of efforts by the Bell System phone companies to escalate the costs of interconnection as an indirect means of excluding competition.

Emergency medicine was recognized as a separate specialty by Medical Council of India ( MCI ) only from July 2009.

In December 2005, the Microsoft corporation announced that MCI will join it by providing Windows Live Messenger customers " Voice Over Internet Protocol " ( VoIP ) service to make telephone calls.

After EchoStar obtained the broadcasting assets of a failed joint venture between ASkyB and MCI WorldCom, it had more than doubled its capacity by adding 28 transponders at the 110 ° W orbital location.

The following week Norman won the MCI Heritage Golf Classic at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in April 1988, inspired by a leukemia-stricken teenager who got his wish to meet Norman and watch him play ; he was only supposed to watch him for two rounds, but Norman arranged for him to stay until the tournament's completion, after which Norman gave him the winner's trophy.

Founded in 1963, it grew to be the second-largest long-distance provider in the U. S. It was purchased by WorldCom in 1998 and became MCI WorldCom, with the name afterwards being shortened to WorldCom in 2000.

The MCI name disappeared in January 2006 after the company was bought by Verizon.

MCI ordered interconnections from the local exchange carriers, which in most cases was a Bell Operating Company, owned by AT & T.

On June 13, 1980, a jury in Chicago awarded MCI $ 1. 8 billion in damages to be paid by AT & T.

While these offers were being considered by the MCI board, WorldCom, Inc. announced it was also interested in purchasing MCI and made a higher offer than either the BT or GTE offers.

MCI was the first company to deploy single-mode fiber optic cable ( the standard had been multi-mode ), which was manufactured by Siecor, a joint venture between Siemens Telecom and Corning Glass Company.

* William G. McGowan's MCI, 1968 to 1991 ( Online exhibit produced by the Hagley Library on the life of MCI CEO William McGowan )