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MCI Communications

Also known as MCI Communications Corporation

What it does

MCI Communications was a telecommunications business acquired by WorldCom in September 1998.

This profile identifies the acquired MCI business. It is distinct from the later name MCI, Inc. used by reorganized WorldCom after its 2004 bankruptcy emergence. Its website link is an SEC-hosted historical record, not a claim of current independent operations.

SEC-filed report describing the MCI acquisition ↗

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Ownership & partners

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Deep dives

Regulatory caseResearch updated Oct 6, 2026

WorldCom: how ordinary network expenses became fictitious earnings →

WorldCom grew through telecom acquisitions, then concealed deteriorating economics by turning operating expenses into assets. The full history connects the executives’ accounting decisions, Cynthia Cooper’s audit, bankruptcy, criminal cases and the different meanings of investor recovery.

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