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Harvard officials say their hands are tied by a dated contract with MCI WorldCom that leaves the long distance carrier to walk away with substantial profits while the University is forced to pass the high prices on to break even...
...Harvard looks to reevaluate its contract this year, MCI WorldCom's rivals are bucking for Harvard's business. If Harvard plays its cards right, the renegotiations of rates could mean substantial savings for students, who paid $4.5 million in HSTO bills last year...
...other hand, the three leading commercial long distance service providers, AT&T, Sprint and MCI WorldCom, all advertise dime-per-minute rates for residential customers. AT&T offers a nine-cent per minute plan for customers who will receive their bills online and MCI WorldCom recently launched a plan offering domestic calls for a nickel-a-minute on Sundays...
Harvard's contract with MCI WorldCom is at least three years old, dating back to a time when phone companies were charging residential customers more...
...frustrating Ma Bell's costly drive into the $110 billion local service market, a much-publicized mass layoff of 40,000 employees had failed to boost business, and worst of all, the largest U.S. telephone company (1997 revenues: $51.3 billion) was stuck on the sidelines, while upstarts such as WorldCom and MCI were teaming to deliver everything from long-distance service to high-speed Internet access. "This marvelous industry was growing in double digits globally," Armstrong explains. "The only trouble was, AT&T was not participating in that growth...