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To: TLindt who wrote (4417)	5/21/1998 7:00:00 AM
From: Benny Baga	Respond to of 8545

MCI Systemhouse develops electronic billing service May 21, 1998 Network World via NewsEdge Corporation : Las Vegas MCI Communications Corp.'s IT services arm has joined forces with an= Internet commerce start-up to help banks offer electronic billing and= payment to their customers. MCI Systemhouse announced a partnership with NETdelivery Corp. of= Boulder, Colo. NETdelivery's Electronic Delivery Management (EDM) software= suite lets partners post consumer bills on secure Web sites. MCISystemhouse= announced the partnership at the recent NetWorld+Interop 98 show here. Later this year, the two companies expect to roll out an electronic= billing service, which will be hosted on the MCI network, to financial= institutions.=20 The competition MCI and NETdelivery officials expect the service to compete with MSFDC,= the electronic billing joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and First Data= Corp. announced nearly a year ago. MSFDC is a service that lets companies= use the Internet to send bills to and receive payments from consumers. A number of financial institutions are already piloting MSFDC, including= Wells Fargo Bank and KeyBank Corp. Retailers such as J.C. Penney Company, and Shell Oil Co. have also signed up to test MSFDC. MCI and NETdelivery officials did not give the names of banks scheduled= to pilot their service. "A lot of banks are going to pilot with us because they don't want to= give up control to Microsoft," said Scott Andersen, operating executive for MCI Systemhouse's Commercial Industries Sector.