MCI came to Washington in 1972 with so few assets that it became known as a law office with an antenna. Today, that once-combative law office has grown into a 98,000-mile telecommunications network, ...

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MCI has accepted a revised $7.64 billion acquisition bid from Verizon Communications, rejecting a higher offer from Qwest Communications, MCI announced Tuesday. The Verizon bid increases the cash ...

V. Orville Wright, 87, president and chief executive of MCI Communications during its transformation from a start-up into the leading challenger of AT&T in the 1970s and 1980s, has died. Mr. Wright, ...

Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to acquire MCI Inc. in a deal valued at $6.7 billion, the companies announced today, ending weeks of speculation about a likely deal. Verizon said the ...

Qwest Communications submitted another higher offer for MCI Inc. Thursday, increasing its cash-and-stock bid to $9.74 billion, about 30 percent higher than the buyout deal that MCI has accepted from ...

Following in AT&T's online footsteps, MCI Communications Corp. on Monday became the second long-distance phone company in recent weeks to offer its customers a free sampling of the Internet. MCI also ...

Richard Roscitt, who has 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, has been appointed the next president and chief operating officer of MCI, the troubled U.S. carrier announced ...

SBC Communications Inc. joined Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. in opposing a request by the committee of MCI's unsecured creditors to subpoena some of the company's competitors. In an ...

Verizon Communications has agreed to acquire MCI in a deal valued at $6.7 billion, the companies announced Monday, ending weeks of speculation about a likely deal. Verizon said the acquisition would ...