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To: Mazman who wrote (3357)	9/30/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 11568

Cable & Wireless Selling Phone Services in U.S. for 5c-Minute Bloomberg News September 30, 1998, 10:08 a.m. ET Cable & Wireless Selling Phone Services in U.S. for 5c-Minute Vienna, Virginia, Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) - Cable & Wireless USA, a unit of Cable & Wireless Plc, is offering its U.S. residential Internet customers long-distance phone services for 5 cents a minute on weekends and 7 cents a minute on weekdays -- the lowest prices in the industry. The plan, called ixComplete, began two weeks ago when Cable & Wireless bought MCI Communications Corp.'s Internet assets for $1.75 billion in cash. The offer matches a limited 5-cent weekend rate by AT&T Corp., the largest U.S. long-distance company, and a Sunday 5-cent plan by MCI WorldCom Inc., the No. 2 U.S. long- distance company created by WorldCom's purchase of MCI. Cable & Wireless USA expects the plan will convince some of its 500,000 Internet customers to also buy phone services. It's also aiming to woo new customers, a move that will help boost its U.S. sales to more than $1.1 billion in fiscal 1999 ending in March from $900 million in fiscal 1998, an executive said. Cable & Wireless USA wants to ''retain these ex-MCI Internet customers and grow our customer base,'' said My-Chau Nguyen, senior vice president of marketing at Cable & Wireless USA, told the Bloomberg Forum. Nguyen said the discount plan is a limited promotion, although she declined to say how long it will run for. The plan is profitable, although she wouldn't elaborate. --Colleen McElroy in the Princeton newsroom (609) 279-4069/esk