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MCI was founded as Microwave Communications, Inc. on October 3, 1963, with John D. Goeken being named the company's first president. The initial business plan was for the company to build a series of microwave radio relay stations between Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri.
The service's heavy spend on television advertising made 1-800-COLLECT ads, which featured celebrities including Phil Hartman, Wayne Knight, Mr. T, and Arsenio Hall, a ubiquitous feature of the 1990s TV landscape in the United States. [7] In 2000, 1-800-COLLECT was being promoted with more than $160 million in annual advertising support by MCI ...
The MCI Mail service was launched on September 23, 1983, in Washington, D.C., during a press conference that was hosted by MCI's founder and Chairman, William G. McGowan. [1] MCI Mail was the first commercial email service to use the Internet, in 1989. [3] [4] The service was officially decommissioned by MCI at 11:59 p.m. ET on June 30, 2003. [5]
In-Flight Phone Corporation attracted more than $200 million from investors, and Goeken set out to build the first nationwide digital air-to-ground telecommunications network, capable of delivering static-free telephone calls, internet service and information services, to airplane seats.
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10-10-321, 10-10-345, 10-10-220, and 10-10-987 are United States long-distance phone services best known for their prolific television and direct mail advertising in the late 1990s. 10-10-321 was the first mass-marketed service of its type. 10-10-345 was owned by AT&T, and the rest were all owned by MCI, which is now part of Verizon.
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