MCI Inc.

This article is about LDDS, which later changed its name to WorldCom and purchased MCI Communications. For other uses, see MCI (disambiguation).
"WorldCom" redirects here. For the scandal, see WorldCom scandal.

MCI Inc.
  • Verizon Enterprise Solutions
  • Verizon Business
Formerly
  • Long Distance Discount Services (1983–1995)
  • WorldCom (1995–1998, 2000–2003)
  • MCI WorldCom (1998–2000)
  • MCI (2003–2006)
Company typePublic
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Defunct2006; 18 years ago (2006)
FateAcquired by Verizon Communications in 2006
HeadquartersAshburn, Virginia, U.S.
ProductsConferencing, contact centers, data and IP services, internet access, IT solutions and hosting, managed networks, premises equipment (CPE), security, voice, VoIP, wireless
RevenueUS$20.6 billion (2005)
ParentVerizon Communications (2006)
Website

MCI, Inc. (formerly WorldCom and MCI WorldCom) was a telecommunications company. For a time, it was the second-largest long-distance telephone company in the United States, after AT&T. WorldCom grew largely by acquiring other telecommunications companies, including MCI Communications in 1998, and filed for bankruptcy in 2002 after an accounting scandal, in which several executives, including CEO Bernard Ebbers, were convicted of a scheme to inflate the company's assets. In January 2006, the company, by then renamed MCI, was acquired by Verizon Communications and was later integrated into Verizon Business.

WorldCom was originally headquartered in Clinton, Mississippi before relocating to Ashburn, Virginia when it changed its name to MCI.[1][2]

  1. ^ "MCI Inc – SC 13D/A – LCC International Inc". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 14, 2003.
  2. ^ "WorldCom to emerge from collapse". CNN. April 14, 2003.