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MCI WorldCom, headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, is a international telecommunication company, that sprung from the merger between MCI Communications and WorldCom in 1998.

The company was purchased by Verizon Communication in July 2006. The company is now a part of the Verizon Business, which provides local as well as global communication solutions to its customers.

Earlier, WorldCom was considered as the second-largest long distance phone company, before it went bankrupt. The company grew quite aggressively over the years, acquiring a swarm of companies, WorldCom also owned the Tier 1 ISP UUNET.

In a much similar pattern, MCI too followed a similar trend, acquiring more and more companies and growing substantially to breach the monopoly of AT&T, that dominated the American telephony for many years.

In November 1997, MCI Communications announced its $37 billion merger with WorldCom, which was marked as the largest merger in the US history. The new company, under the name MCI WorldCom, started its operations in September 1998.

In the next year, the merged entity, MCI WorldCom, quite astonished the telecom market with the announcement of a $129 billion merger with Sprint Corporation. Had the deal been successful, it could have led to the ultimate breakdown of AT&T monopoly.

The deal, however, failed to close due to pressure from US Department of Justice and EU, apart from the industry slowdown, as whole, on concern over creation of monopoly which the new merged entity might create. Later, the Board of Directors of the two companies called off the merger in 2000.

In the year 2002, WorldCom filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 in the US court. Following the bankruptcy, WorldCom changed its name to MCI, and shifted its headquarters from Mississippi to Virginia during 2003. The United States Department of Defense gave the company a ‘no-bid contract’ for building cellular telephone network in Iraq in that period (2003).

However, the company emerged out of bankruptcy a year later (2004), with $5.7 billion in debt. The new MCI reached an agreement for the acquisition of the company with the Verizon Communication. The acquisition deal with Verizon amounted to nearly $5.7 billion.

In 2005, Bernard Ebbers, the CEO of the WorldCom since 1985, was put in imprisonment on charges of fraud, conspiracy and filing false documents with regulators. In the same year, the 17 former underwriters of WorldCom reached a settlement with its investors.

City:	New York
State:	New York
Zip Code:	10011
County:	New York
County Population:	1593200
Time Zone:	Eastern

Type:	Landline
Date of registration:	11/05/2007
Time:	05/28/2013 11:54:35 AM
Rate Center:	Nwyrcyzn01
Switch CLLI:	NYCMNY83DS2
OCN:	35620