MCI Inc.

MCI Inc.

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Trade name	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 type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: MCIP OTC Pink: WCOEQ Nasdaq: WCOEQ Nasdaq: WCOME Nasdaq: WCOM
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Defunct	2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Fate	Acquired by Verizon Communications in 2006
Headquarters	Ashburn, Virginia, U.S.
Products	Conferencing, contact centers, data and IP services, internet access, IT solutions and hosting, managed networks, premises equipment (CPE), security, voice, VoIP, wireless
Revenue	US$20.6 billion (2005)
Parent	Verizon Communications (2006)
Website	enterprise.verizon.com www.mci.com/mcihome.jsp

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]