Broadcom, JDS, Uniphase, Sun, Lucent and MCI WorldCom came straight out of Gilder's Telecosm.
For major customers, MCI WorldCom has created telephone bridges that will let everyone stay in touch.
Representatives of several companies, including MCI WorldCom and RoadRunner, expressed interest in the clearinghouse.
Board members include John Sidgmore, MCI WorldCom's vice chairman, and Dan Stanzione, the former COO of Lucent.
If successful under current terms, Vodafone's bid would be the biggest takeover bid in history, topping MCI WorldCom Inc.
It has been talking with several foreign companies for months including MCI Worldcom.
Before joining Inmarsat, he spent seven years at MCI WorldCom, most recently as executive vice president of its European operations.
America Online has joined forces with GTE, U S West, MCI WorldCom and myriad smaller ISPs to urge local officials to require open access.
The rest came from Zhone's founders and board members such as MCI Worldcom Vice Chairman John Sidgmore and Dan Stanzione, former chief operating officer of Lucent.
"Tax advantages are not what's going to allow the Internet to grow, " said John Sigdmore, vice chairman and chief operating officer of MCI WorldCom and a member of the e-commerce commission.
Inmate number 52071-019, identified me as a former executive at MCI (later MCI WorldCom) that had participated in money laundering, wire fraud and obstruction of justice while working at the telecom giant.
Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access-devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI Worldcom, before most people had heard of the Web.
Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI WorldCom, before most people had heard of the web.
"If you do business over the Internet, ICANN is going to impact you, " says Theresa Swinehart, associate counsel for international affairs at MCI WorldCom and a leader in ICANN's Commercial and Business Entities Constituency.
But since 1995, that simple anatomy has given way to several separate backbones -- thousands of miles of extremely-high-bandwidth fiber-optic cable owned by the likes of Sprint, GTE, IBM, and MCI WorldCom, connecting major metropolitan areas all over the country.
Then there were the companies that provided the internet's backbone, like MCI and WorldCom.
MCI-WorldCom and Sprint, which would have reduced long distance telecom carriers in America to two.
MCI, WorldCom has a fibre-optic cable in America, global satellite coverage, and a mass of undersea fibre.
U.S. and European antitrust types worry that a combined MCI-Worldcom would control 60% of Internet backbone traffic.
The uncollected bills got so bad that managers at MCI, WorldCom, Sprint and elsewhere discussed setting up a database to track offenders.
MCI, WorldCom had given the old guard a nasty fright by launching a service to carry fax traffic over the Internet.
How much in capital spending for a new souped-up MCI-Worldcom network?
"The problem that Qwest has is almost that it didn't go into Chapter 11, " says Pultz, with a nod to the bankruptcy filing by MCI predecessor WorldCom.
Pavlo argues that the charge was, rather, a way to use the industry downturn to mask the writeoff of receivables that had been rotting for years on the books of MCI and WorldCom, artificially boosting profits.
When MCI merged with WorldCom two years ago, the European Commission forced the pair to spin off MCI's Internet backbone.
Sadly, after McGowan died, MCI was merged into Worldcom, the company that devolved into a total accounting fraud.
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WorldCom says it expects the MCI unit's revenue to remain flat while the WorldCom unit grows 12% to 14% percent in the fourth quarter.
First Data is run by Michael Capellas, the quirky former chief executive of computer maker Compaq and telecom outfit MCI in its post-WorldCom incarnation.
In the mid-1990s, BT made a bid to merge with MCI (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ), before MCI was taken over by WorldCom .
The man they were referring to was CEO of WorldCom (now MCI) Bernard Ebbers who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy for his role in a massive accounting scandal that led to what was at the time the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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