MCI

(company)A United States long-distance telecommunicationscompany. Recently bought from British Telecom

MCI

(1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device.

(2) (Microwave Communications Inc.) The long distance telephone company that was largely responsible for competitive telephone services in the U.S. It all started in 1963 in Springfield, IL. Jack Goeken and four others formed a company to increase sales of two-way radios by building microwave towers along Route 66 from St. Louis to Chicago for truckers. Bill McGowan, a New York consultant, joined the company in 1968 and helped Goeken acquire leases to build towers nationwide at a time when AT&T controlled virtually all long distance in the U.S.

In 1969, the FCC granted MCI the right to offer long distance services and to hook up to AT&T's network for access to the customer's premises, yet MCI was thwarted at every turn. In 1974, it filed a suit against AT&T, and the Justice Department filed its own suit, all of which led to the breakup of AT&T in 1984 (see Divestiture).

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, MCI raised USD $2.6 billion in capital, offered innovative services and ultimately captured one third of the business market. After McGowan died in 1992, MCI lost its soul and was slower to form novel strategies; however, it did develop one of the best IP networks in the country. In 1997, MCI was acquired by WorldCom for USD $30 billion. Five years later, WorldCom declared bankruptcy, but emerged in 2004 as MCI.

In 2005, MCI was acquired by Verizon Communications, Inc. and became the Verizon business division of the company (www.verizonbusiness.com). See MCI Mail, WorldCom and MCI Decision.

MCI

Acronym	Definition
MCI➣Microwave Communications Incorporated
MCI➣Mild Cognitive Impairment
MCI➣Medical Council of India
MCI➣Management Center Innsbruck (educational institution; Austria)
MCI➣Mass Casualty Incident
MCI➣Marine Corps Installations
MCI➣Media Control Interface
MCI➣Michigan City (Amtrak station code; Michigan City, IN)
MCI➣Methylchloroisothiazolinone (preservative)
MCI➣Marine Corps Institute
MCI➣Millicuries
MCI➣Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Japan)
MCI➣Maryland Correctional Institution
MCI➣Multimedia Control Interface
MCI➣Multiport Communication Interface
MCI➣Multi Card Imager
MCI➣Multimedia Card Interface
MCI➣Media Card Imager
MCI➣Microwave Communications Inc.
MCI➣Message Channel Interface
MCI➣Multi Channel Integration
MCI➣Modeling Clipping Indicator
MCI➣Manufacturers Components Incorporated (Pompano Beach, FL)
MCI➣Monetary Conditions Index
MCI➣Mazda Canada, Inc. (Ontario, Canada)
MCI➣Monte Carlo Integration (mathematics)
MCI➣MassMutual Corporate Investors (USA)
MCI➣Multi-Channel Integration
MCI➣Mountaineering Council of Ireland
MCI➣Multiple-Casualty Incidents (emergency medicine)
MCI➣Massachusetts Correctional Institution
MCI➣Mercy Corps International (non-profit international humantarian relief and development organization; Portland, Oregon, USA)
MCI➣Management Charter Initiative
MCI➣Marine Casualty Investigation
MCI➣Motor Coach Industries Int'l, Inc.
MCI➣Midwest Communications, Inc. (radio stations)
MCI➣Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd. (Japan)
MCI➣Mortgage Credit Institution
MCI➣Malicious Call Identification
MCI➣Mobile Company of Iran (state-owned telecommunications company)
MCI➣Management Concepts, Inc.
MCI➣Massachusetts Correctional Institute
MCI➣Macroinvertebrate Community Index
MCI➣Multiplex Configuration Information
MCI➣Montreal Chest Institute
MCI➣Message Center Interface
MCI➣Meal, Combat, Individual
MCI➣Manejo Costero Integrado (Spanish: Integrated Coastal Management)
MCI➣Magazine Circuit Industriel (French: Industrial Circuit Magazine)
MCI➣Multi Colour Impression (stamps)
MCI➣Mitsubishi Chemical Infonics Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
MCI➣Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Spanish)
MCI➣Multi-Cluster Interleaving (data retrieval)
MCI➣Kansas City, MO, USA - Kansas City International Airport (Airport Code)
MCI➣Measurement Layer Interface (UMA)
MCI➣Music Center, Inc (audio recording consoles)
MCI➣Meetings, Conventions and Incentives
MCI➣Multimedia Command Interface
MCI➣Malleable Cast Iron
MCI➣Martingrove Collegiate Institute (Toronto, ON, Canada)
MCI➣Managing Criminal Investigations (criminal justice)
MCI➣Multi-Command Instruction (military)
MCI➣Modern Comptrollership Initiative (Canada)
MCI➣McIntyre Media Ltd (Canada)
MCI➣Man Crush Index (fantasy football)
MCI➣Motorcycle Competition, Inc.
MCI➣Media Card Interface
MCI➣Malvern Collegiate Institute
MCI➣Managed Cost Improvement
MCI➣Magnetic Current Imaging
MCI➣Mission Capability Inspection
MCI➣Manufacturing Control Instruction
MCI➣Mississippi Certified Investigator
MCI➣Military Customs Inspection / Inspector
MCI➣Mass Communications, Incorporated
MCI➣Maintenance and Control Interface
MCI➣Major Currencies Index (Federal Reserve)
MCI➣Master Configuration Index (software documentation)
MCI➣Material Condition Index
MCI➣Material Control Index
MCI➣Metals Consulting International Limited (UK-based steel and metals management consulting firm)
MCI➣Mass Centering Inertia (physics)
MCI➣Message Communication Interface (Unit)
MCI➣Mid-Columbia Insurance

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