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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