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| Volume One, Issue Two, Phile 7 of 9 | |
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| MCI Communications Corporation, headquartered in Washington, D.C., provides a | |
| full range of domestic and international telecommunications services, including | |
| voice and data, telex and cable, paging and mobile telephone, and time | |
| sensitive message delivery. | |
| Since its founding in 1968, MCI has grown to more than $1.6 billion in annual | |
| sales and serves more than 1.9 million business, residential and government | |
| customers through its four major business units: | |
| MCI Telecommunications | |
| MCI Airsignal | |
| MCI International | |
| MCI Digital Information Services | |
| MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS | |
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| MCI Telecommunications provides domestic interstate long distance service | |
| throughout all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and major | |
| calling areas of Canada. It is also authorized to provide varying degrees of | |
| intrastate long distance service in some states. | |
| MCIT also is the first long distance carrier other than AT&T to offer direct | |
| dial service overseas. International telephone service is available to all | |
| residential and commercial customers (with the exception of Private Line | |
| customers). In October, 1984 the first international service agreements were | |
| announced with the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, East | |
| Germany, Greece, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. | |
| Total capital investment in MCI's long distance network is approximately $2 | |
| billion. MCI's network, the second largest in the U.S., employs microwave | |
| optical fiber, satellite and various digital transmission technologies. | |
| Subscribers - Domestic Long Distance (as of 10/84) | |
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| Residential 1.4 million | |
| Commercial .3 million | |
| Total 1.7 million | |
| Operations - (as of 10/84) | |
| Network Miles 20,543 | |
| (microwave, optical fiber, satellite) | |
| Circuits 238,000 | |
| Employees 9,500 (full-time, approx.) | |
| MCI AIRSIGNAL | |
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| MCI Airsignal provides personal message delivery and car telephone services. | |
| MCI Message Service is offered in more than 50 metropolitan areas. In 1984, | |
| service will commence in New York City, Baltimore-Washington, Los Angeles, and | |
| Chicago. MCI car telephone service is offered in 20 markets. | |
| Personal Message Delivery Service | |
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| ALPHANUMERIC MESSAGE SERVICE | |
| Displays up to 40-character message using letters and/or numbers. Memory | |
| and recall ability. Alerts subscriber with a silent visual alert or a soft | |
| tone. | |
| DISPLAY MESSAGE SERVICE | |
| Displays up to 24-digit message (e.g., phone number, stock quotes, sales | |
| figures, coded messages). Memory and recall capability. Alerts customer | |
| to message with a silent visual alert or a soft tone. | |
| TONE MESSAGE SERVICE | |
| Notifies customer of a message with a soft tone. | |
| VOICE MESSAGE SERVICE | |
| Receives message in actual voice of caller. | |
| EXPRESS MESSAGE SERVICE | |
| Receives and stores messages. Instantly alerts subscriber via pager when | |
| a message is received. | |
| Car Telephone Service | |
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| Enables customers to place calls to or receive calls from anywhere in the | |
| world, 24 hours a day, as they travel in their cars. With the advent of new | |
| cellular technology, both the quality and the accessibility of car telephone | |
| service will vastly improve. | |
| MCI has thus far obtained franchises to operate a new kind of mobile phone | |
| service, cellular telephone, in Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, and has received | |
| favorable decisions from FCC administration law judges authorizing service in | |
| Los Angeles, Denver-Boulder, and Kansas City. MCI has applied for licenses to | |
| provide cellular service in 81 metropolitan areas. | |
| MCI Airsignal Branch Sales Offices | |
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| Personal Message Service/Conventional Mobile Phone Service | |
| Birmingham (205) 942-2924 | |
| Sacramento (916) 444-2350 | |
| Memphis (901) 682-9658 | |
| Cleveland (216) 464-7311 | |
| Dallas (214) 788-5111 | |
| Fresno (209) 486-7410 | |
| Las Vegas (702) 382-7461 | |
| Denver (303) 778-7878 | |
| Portland (503) 227-2556 | |
| Philadelphia (215) 677-9845 | |
| Atlanta (404) 252-2114 | |
| West Florida (813) 875-3404 | |
| Minneapolis (612) 544-8175 | |
| Kansas City (913) 648-8090 | |
| Miami (305) 491-0122 | |
| Pittsburgh (412) 343-1611 | |
| Houston (713) 464-2516 | |
| Bakersfield (805) 832-2346 | |
| Cellular Telephone Offices | |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul (612) 544-3312 | |
| Los Angeles (714) 527-0385 | |
| Elsewhere in California (800) 344-3455 | |
| Headquarters - Washington, D.C. (202) 429-9660 | |
| MCI INTERNATIONAL | |
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| MCI International provides private-line voice service to several overseas | |
| countries, and data and message services, including telex, cablegram, leased | |
| channel, and packet switching communications, to more than 200 overseas points. | |
| MCI has moved into two new areas of service: International direct-dial | |
| telephone service and international electronic mail and hard-copy delivery | |
| services. | |
| International Record Services | |
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| TELEX SERVICE (domestic and international) permits instantaneous, two-way, | |
| written communications with other subscribers worldwide. Customers can send | |
| messages at any time, even though the receiving terminal may be unattended. | |
| MCI International offers access to its telex service from a variety of | |
| terminals and networks; not only subscribers with telex terminals but also | |
| those with communicating word processors, data terminals or computers that | |
| communicate over telephone lines can take advantage of MCI International telex | |
| service. To subscribers connected to its own telex network, MCI International | |
| offers World Message Services--a package of communications offerings including | |
| telex, cablegram and MCI Mail services. Various service enhancements are | |
| available to save time, improve operating efficiency and simplify records | |
| keeping for telex users. | |
| CABLEGRAM SERVICE, the traditional means of international written | |
| communications, offers flexibility in delivery and economical rates for shorter | |
| messages. Cablegrams can be delivered to virtually any overseas point. | |
| Subscribers with telex terminals or various other types of equipment can access | |
| and TELUS cablegram switch and take advantage of such service enhancements as | |
| abbreviated addressing and departmental billing. | |
| LEASED CHANNEL SERVICE provides an exclusive line between a U.S. firm and it's | |
| overseas office for private communications 24 hours a day. Each MCI | |
| International leased channel is tailored to meet the needs of a specific | |
| customer for teleprinter, facsimile, voice and/or data traffic. For | |
| subscribers with several offices requiring private communications with each | |
| other, MCI International offers a versatile message-switching service. | |
| Voice/data leases can be configured to meet a whole array of communicating | |
| needs; for example, one channel might carry data traffic from a computer at | |
| night, voice communications during office hours, and simultaneous teleprinter | |
| messages at any time. Data channels can handle requirements for traffic at any | |
| speed from 1200 bits per second to 1.544 megabits per second. | |
| IMPACS SERVICE uses packet-switching technology to provide international | |
| communications service between data terminals and computers. Impacs offers | |
| on-line, real-time connections and enables many types of incompatible systems | |
| to communicate. Impacs service offers virtually error-free transmission | |
| because of the error-detection and retransmission capability of the network. | |
| INSTALINK SERVICE allows businesses overseas to use regular telex equipment to | |
| access remote computing systems and databases in the U.S. Subscribers can | |
| retrieve data from a computer-based information service or use a computing | |
| system connecting to a packet-switching network in the U.S. | |
| INTERNATIONAL FACSIMILE SERVICE enables subscribers to send duplicates of | |
| original documents overseas quickly and efficiently, even when neither the | |
| sender nor the receiver has facsimile transmission equipment, or when the | |
| sender and receiver have incompatible equipment. | |
| DATEL SERVICE provides automatic or voice-coordinated data transmission at | |
| speeds up to 2400 bits per second. Either digital or analog facsimile traffic | |
| can be transmitted via Datel. Datel facilities are conditioned to ensure | |
| high-quality transmission. The MCI International switching center allows | |
| communications between incompatible terminals. | |
| MARITIME SERVICES provide instant, high--quality contact between ships at sea | |
| or offshore rigs, and between these vessels and land-based subscribers | |
| worldwide. | |
| International Voice Services | |
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| PRIVATE LINE SERVICE provides, fast, easy access to a single overseas location | |
| at an economical monthly rate. This technically efficient system maximizes the | |
| use of line capacity by recognizing idle time and assigning a speaker to a | |
| transmission path only when the path is needed. Users can dial a four-digit | |
| extension from a regular business phone to reach a key overseas location. | |
| International Mail Services | |
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| WORLD MESSAGE SERVICE subscribers can access the domestic electronic mail and | |
| hard-copy delivery offerings of MCI Mail. In addition, MCI International is | |
| developing fast, low-cost services that will deliver electronic messages and | |
| high-quality printed documents worldwide. | |
| Customer Service | |
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| THE CUSTOMER TROUBLE REPORTING ASSISTANCE CENTER at MCI International addresses | |
| customer concerns such as equipment maintenance and service performance | |
| questions. Customer service specialists, on duty 24 hours a day on business | |
| days, answer questions and electronically route service requests to technicians | |
| nationwide. | |
| MCI DIGITAL INFORMATION SERVICES CORP. | |
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| MCI Digital Information Services, MCI's newest unit, provides high-speed, | |
| low-cost, time-sensitive message delivery (MCI Mail), either electronically or | |
| via hard copy. | |
| MCI Mail provides time-sensitive document delivery to anyone, anywhere vial | |
| MCI's long-distance telephone network. MCI Mail can reach a recipient | |
| instantly, in four hours or less, or overnight by noon the next day. Prices | |
| are as much as 90 percent lower than comparable time-sensitive mail delivery | |
| services. MCI Mail can be delivered electronically, terminal to terminal, or | |
| laser printed on letterhead stationery with the customer's signature. | |
| MCI Mail customers can even order gifts and services direct through MCI Mail, | |
| ranging from software and paper for personal computers to investment advisory | |
| services to travel specials. | |
| There are no sign-up, monthly service charges or "connect time" charges for MCI | |
| Mail. MCI Mail can be used by virtually any personal computer, word processor, | |
| electronic typewriter, data terminal, telex, or other digital communications | |
| device. The service is accessed by a local telephone call or 800 number. | |
| MCI Mail | |
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| INSTANT delivery to an "electronic" mailbox. | |
| FOUR-HOUR paper delivery by courier to 17 major metropolitan areas regardless | |
| of point of origin. | |
| OVERNIGHT paper delivery by courier by noon the next day in 20,000 continental | |
| U.S. cities. | |
| MCI LETTER transmitted electronically to the MCI digital postal center nearest | |
| its destination, then delivered locally by the U.S. Postal Service. | |
| TELEX DISPATCH enables MCI Mail subscribers to transmit messages to the more | |
| than 1.6 million telex subscribers worldwide. | |
| VOLUME MAIL enables customers to send large mailings in a variety of letter | |
| formats, at substantial savings in delivery time and expense. | |
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