Long-distance giants AT&T and MCI rang in the new year with higher phone bills for customers, and Sprint plans to do the same. AT&T raised its universal services fund (USF) fee from 9.9 percent of the ...

I canceled my MCI long distance because a friend told me I could use a 10-10 dial-around service and get a rate of 6 cents a minute. I made a 65-minute call to Arizona and MCI charged me $145.26. The ...

NEW YORK -- Long-distance giant MCI avoided paying access fees to local phone companies by diverting calls to Canada -- including calls placed by the State Department and other government agencies, AT ...

MCI has an unwelcome holiday gift in store for many of its customers: higher bills. In an effort to boost its sagging profits, the nation's second-largest long- distance company plans to increase ...

For the third time in as many months, MCI plans to boost long-distance telephone rates for some customers Feb. 1. And AT&T, the nation's largest carrier, raised some of its rates on New Year's Day.

NEW YORK -- It seems to defy a basic law of business: competition is increasing in the long-distance phone market, but prices are going up anyway. How can this be? Companies and analysts say it's ...

SANTA MARIA 77 The often-repeated message of "call before you dig" didn/t get through Wednesday, as an unidentified company at a construction site dug up and damaged an MCI World Com cable.

Following in AT&T's online footsteps, MCI Communications Corp. on Monday became the second long-distance phone company in recent weeks to offer its customers a free sampling of the Internet. MCI also ...

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WorldCom matched analysts' earnings expectations for the first quarter, but saw revenue dip sequentially as its MCI long-distance business struggled. WorldCom reported net income of $729 million, or ...