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RSS mciSpyware: A Morphing Campaign
White Paper Pop-up ads displaying pitches for companies such as Sprint, Volvo, MCI, and other top companies were commonplace. Spyware and other Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are a relatively new, albeit quick-to-flourish... [31 Jul 2009]
Security In The Cloud
White Paper After years of shipping packets with increasing speed, telecommunications companies like AT&T, Sprint, and MCI find themselves uniquely positioned to provide an important first line of network security defense. [17 Mar 2009]
WiMAX Overview and MCI Perspective
White Paper The WiMAX Forum is an industry group formed to promote and certify radio systems based on the recently completed IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access standard. Equipment complying with the standard and meeting the interoperability... [02 Sep 2008]
Top five takeovers that shook the tech world
News Worldcom and MCI, $37bn, 1998: Telecoms giant Worldcom bought MCI, the long distance operator, in 1998 for around $37bn. In the process, Worldcom had to pay BT almost $7bn to buy out the UK company's 20... [04 Feb 2008]
AT&T-BellSouth merger gets FCC green light
News In 2005, Verizon Communications announced the acquisition of MCI, and SBC Communications said it would acquire AT&T. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the roughly $86bn mega-merger between AT&T... [02 Jan 2007]
AT&T-BellSouth merger back to square one?
News He urged his four colleagues, two Democrats and two Republicans, to return to the negotiating table and work out a unanimous agreement, as they did with mergers last year involving AT&T and SBC Communications, and Verizon and... [19 Dec 2006]
No 'rubber-stamp' for US telco mega-merger
News A federal judge in the US has warned that he was no intention of "rubber-stamping" the merger of AT&T-SBC Communications and Verizon-MCI. Judge Emmet Sullivan, of the US District Court for the District of Columbia,... [01 Dec 2006]
Alcatel-Lucent merger gets shareholder nod
News Last year, local phone company SBC Communications bought long distance carrier AT&T, and Verizon Communications bought MCI. Alcatel and Lucent Technologies shareholders approved Alcatel's $11bn acquisition of Lucent on... [08 Sep 2006]
US telco mega-mergers under scrutiny
News The Bush administration's approval of the mega-mergers of telcos AT&T and SBC and of Verizon and MCI has been challenged by a federal judge. US District Judge Emmet Sullivan said at the start of the hearing that he may... [13 Jul 2006]
AA in £10m network outsourcing deal with C&W
News C&W beat off competition from BT, MCI and Siemens for the deal and Didcock said the main reason for choosing C&W was that it was the "lower risk option" because of the Energis connection (C&W having bought the telco for... [28 Jun 2006]
BT and KDDI team up in Japan
News Its international competitors for large network-plus-IT contracts include AT&T, NTT - Japan's largest telco and fierce KDDI rival - Orange Business Services (previously Equant), Sprint and Verizon Business (previously MCI). [26 Jun 2006]
HP OpenView TeMIP Provides Carrier With a Single Network-Management View That Enables Faster Problem Resolution and More Satisfied Customers
White Paper Embratel was created in 1965 as a state-owned company; the long-distance carrier and voice, data, and IP backbone was privatized and came under the control of MCI in 1998 until Telmex bought the company in late 2004. [24 May 2006]
Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans
Case Study Aspen uses Verizon - the old MCI international network - on the other side of the Atlantic and for back up in Europe but says COLT could have equally been the winner of the bulk of the business if offices had been... [11 Apr 2006]
AT&T to grab BellSouth in deal worth $67bn
News Verizon announced its bid for long distance carrier MCI last year after SBC had announced its acquisition of AT&T. Eventually, Verizon paid $8.44bn for the formerly bankrupt MCI . AT&T said on Sunday it... [06 Mar 2006]
Reed turns to Sirocom in €17m virtual network deal
News Sirocom, which stresses it is making voice over IP a reality for Reed as well as the use of Citrix thin clients, is using Global Crossing, MCI, Tiscali and other carriers. Sirocom has won a €17m, three-year deal to... [22 Feb 2006]
