er you are at a 30-year-old building or a new one. Nowhere are we shabby." VAULT CAREER LIBRARY © 2005 Vault Inc. MCI, Inc. 22001 Loudoun County Pkwy. THE STATS Ashburn, VA 20147 Phone: (877) 624-1000 Employer Type: Public Company Fax: (212) 885-0570 Stock Symbol: MCIP www.mci.com Stock Exchange: NASDAQ President and CEO: Michael D. Capellas LOCATIONS 2003 Employees: 56,600 Ashburn, VA (HQ) 2003 Revenue ($mil.): $27,315 KEY COMPETITORS Sprint Verizon EMPLOYMENT CONTACT global.mci.com/about/careers/ Visit Vault at www.vault.com for insider company profiles, expert advice, career message boards, expert resume reviews, the Vault Job Board and more. VAULT CAREER LIBRARY Vault Guide to the Top Telecom Employers MCI, Inc. THE SCOOP Telecom giant MCI provides a broad range of voice, data, Internet and international communications services to corporate customers as well as local, long distance, wireless and data services to residential consumers and small businesses. MCI is the second-largest provider of national long distance (second only to AT&T) and operates in 65 countries. Since early 2001, it has been launching fixed-wireless services in cities across America (connecting local users to the phone network using wireless technology). But the lion's share of MCI's business is serving large companies with data and telephone access. MCI has roughly 35 percent of the market, with AT&T having 40 to 45 percent. In addition to serving businesses, MCI is the dominant deliverer of U.S. Internet traffic. The company carries as much as 50 percent of domestic Internet traffic over its network. The rise and fall Since its founding in 1983 as a long-distance reseller in Mississippi, WorldCom grew rapidly through a series of acquisitions. In the 1990s alone, WorldCom was involved in about 60 mergers. One of those deals took place in February 1998 when WorldCom bought CompuServe, an AOL subsidiary. The purchase turned WorldCom into AOL's largest network service provider. When WorldCom completed its $40 billion merger with telecom riv