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Mainframer

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Google agin' them fone cumpneys...

MANY of you posting are too young to remember that AT&T was America's phone company and they said so in court. A small trucking company busted them up way back when when this trucking company wanted to shoot microwave down the interstate to communicate with their trucks. AT&T (Ma Bell) tried to stop it in court citing "we're America's phone company". This little trucking company sent some attorneys to Washington, DC to meet AT&T in court. They had no name, so the court clerks named this company Microwave Communications Incorporated; and, in doing so, MCI was born.

Remember the $2 per minute long distance rates? What "long distance"? That concept never really existed. A computer and a switch don't care how far electricity has to travel. AT&T marketers did care though and they created this farce called long distance. You got billed for it and it was expensive.

Now that Ma Bell has someone knocking on her door, I'm way happy - Google or not!

Competition rules folks!


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said by Mainframer :

They had no name, so the court clerks named this company Microwave Communications Incorporated; and, in doing so, MCI was born.

Remember the $2 per minute long distance rates? What "long distance"? That concept never really existed. A computer and a switch don't care how far electricity has to travel. AT&T marketers did care though and they created this farce called long distance. You got billed for it and it was expensive.

Now that Ma Bell has someone knocking on her door, I'm way happy - Google or not!

Competition rules folks!
MCI/WorldCom robbed investors, employees and customers blind. The people that ran America's communication system into the toilet are dead or in jail.

MCI is now part of Verizon. Now you know the rest of the story.

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