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To: Anthony Wong who wrote (3834)	1/25/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: S. HYDER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11568

This Supreme Court ruling is all over the news, radio and TV, local and network. Todays stock action may imply that Wallstreet expects significant added revenues for WCOM. But the volume was not impressive.

To: Anthony Wong who wrote (3834)	1/27/1999 12:08:00 AM
From: S. HYDER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11568

Some analyst from Kaufman Brothers downgraded WCOM today. Can you believe it?

To: Anthony Wong who wrote (3834)	1/27/1999 6:35:00 PM
From: Mazman	Respond to of 11568

MCI WorldCom Finds Local Rhythm Interactive Week January 27, 1999 3:31 PM ET By Carol Wilson zdnet.com MCI WorldCom stole the march on its archrival AT&T yesterday, announcing a new alliance with competitive carrier Rhythms NetConnections only hours before AT&T was to announce its integrated service plan. By hooking up with Rhythms, one of a handful of competitive local exchange carriers that is building out networks using Digital Subscriber Line technology, MCI immediately expanded its reach into small to midsized businesses in the cities Rhythms serves, including the Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco Bay areas. MCI WorldCom will invest $30 million to acquire a minority stake in Rhythms, and the two companies will do joint development work as well, focusing on combining Digital Subscriber Line-based data access with voice services - either packet-based voice or circuit switched voice - onto a single copper phone line, said Jim DeMerlis, vice president of data and enterprise services for MCI WorldCom. But the real advantage of the link is the access it will give MCI to small to midsized business customers who can't cost-effectively be reached by the fiber-optic ring networks built by MFS Communications, now part of MCI WorldCom. Like Sprint and AT&T, MCI has said it will use any means to reach such customers but would like to avoid reselling incumbent phone lines. As a data CLEC, Rhythms has negotiated interconnection deals with the telcos and is already reselling xDSL service over leased copper lines. Teaming with MCI gives Rhythms more metropolitan and long-distance network muscle. The joint services, to include various forms of xDSL, from Symmetric service at speeds from 128 kilobits per second up to Asymmetric DSL at download speeds as high as 7 megabits per second, will be offered beginning in the second quarter of this year. "We expect to be able to reach 70 percent of U.S. businesses by the year 2000," said DeMerlis, based on Rhythms' connections and existing deals between UUnet Technologies, MCI's Internet service provider unit and other carriers.

To: Anthony Wong who wrote (3834)	2/1/1999 8:25:00 AM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11568

MCI WorldCom to Dismiss 365 Additional Employees, Paper Says Bloomberg News January 30, 1999, 11:01 a.m. ET Washington, Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- MCI WorldCom Inc. said it will dismiss 365 employees on top of the 2,000 job cuts the No. 2 U.S. long distance phone company announced in December, the Washington Times reported. The cuts are part of an effort to eliminate duplicate functions after WorldCom's $47 billion acquisition of MCI last September. Employees laid off yesterday worked mostly in information-technology and technician positions, the Times said. The job cuts announced in December primarily included employees in network operations and information technology positions. (Washington Times 1/30 A13 www.washtimes.com)