Worldcom

WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) today urged the General Services Administration to consider cutting ties with WorldCom Inc., potentially putting lucrative government wireline and wireless contracts in …

WASHINGTON-The inspector general of the General Services Administration is investigating WorldCom Inc.’s contracts with the federal government and may issue recommendations to Congress shortly on whether the Bush administration should …

WASHINGTON-The inspector general of the General Services Administration is investigating WorldCom Inc.’s contracts with the federal government and may issue recommendations soon on whether the Bush administration should continue to …

WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she is dissatisfied with the General Services Administration’s response to her May 30 inquiry on why WorldCom Inc. should continue to …

The telecommunications industry’s on-again, off-again interest in offering bundled services appears to be back on again as a pair of companies announced initiatives last week that could make it easier …

WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) has launched a probe into whether scandal-plagued MCI, which recently won a $34 million defense contract to supply mobile-phone service in Iraq, …

ASHBURN, Va.-MCI Corp., formerly known as WorldCom Inc., has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its accounting fraud case and will pay $500 million in fines …

WASHINGTON-Despite interest in steering Iraq reconstruction business to American companies through competitive bidding and White House reluctance to meddle in wireless rebuilding in the war-torn country, the Bush administration has …

BellSouth Corp. has agreed to buy WorldCom Inc.’s multichannel multipoint distribution system licenses for $65 million in an agreement the two companies reached last month. BellSouth’s bid for the company’s …

There are several ways one can read the Pentagon mini-mobile-phone Iraq contract with MCI, formerly MCI before reputation-ravaged WorldCom Inc. figured a retro name change was in order since just …

WASHINGTON-MCI is working with the Pentagon to provide mobile-phone service in Iraq, but it is unclear whether the embattled long-distance telephone company has an inside track to bring large-scale commercial …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it settled the securities class-action lawsuits related to its failed merger with WorldCom Inc. The settlement is subject to court approval. Sprint agreed to pay …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Based on a new survey of the online customer care offerings of 500 companies, including 22 telecom service and equipment providers, The Customer Respect Group found one-third don’t respond …

Editor’s Note: Each year RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2002 is Dennis Strigl, Verizon Wireless Inc.’s chief executive. Verizon, …

Editor’s Note: Each year RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2002 is Dennis Strigl, Verizon Wireless Inc.’s chief executive. Verizon, …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should raise the wireless safe harbor for universal-service contributions from 15 percent to 40 percent, said the Coalition for Sustainable Universal Service. Long-distance carriers make universal-service …

The wireless industry’s shift from focusing on growth at any expense to an emphasis on growing profitably has been reinforced recently with a number of operators deciding it will take …

Companies bleeding with leviathan losses and flush with embarrassment from weak sales, mismanagement and corruption (the usual stuff in telecom and high-tech sectors these days) are increasingly turning to the …

NEW YORK-Struggling WorldCom Inc. announced it appointed Michael Capellas as the company’s new chairman and chief executive officer. Capellas is the former president of Hewlett-Packard Co. “I took this job …

NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless Inc. reported 1.2 million net customer additions for the third quarter of this year compared with 752,000 net customer additions for the same quarter last year. The …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. became the first nationwide wireless operator to officially report an increase in its customer base during the third quarter of this year following negative net …

WASHINGTON-Saying that WorldCom Inc. is unfit to hold its licenses, the Office of Communications of the United Church of Christ Inc. filed an informal objection to the transfer of WorldCom’s …

PARIS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s technology future was brought into question last week as were the carrier’s upcoming third-quarter financial results. Speaking at the UMTS and Mobile Internet conference in Paris, …

NEW YORK-Citing increased competition and challenges integrating former WorldCom Wireless customers, Lehman Brothers lowered its net customer additions guidance for AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s third quarter from 300,000 subscribers to …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. confirmed it received a subpoena from the New York Attorney General’s office in regards to an investigation into whether Citigroup’s Salomon Smith Barney unit artificially raised its …