MCI Communications Corporation collections

About this collection

    MCI Communications Corporation (MCI) was one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. It was incorporated in Delaware in 1968 as Microwave Communications of America, Inc., to provide businesses with nationwide microwave telecommunications services. MCI-AT&T antitrust litigation (1974-1985) led to AT&T's divestiture of its regional carriers, changing the telecommunications industry into a business open to competition. In 2006, the company was bought by Verizon.
    This digital collection offers selections from the MCI Communications Corporation photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2000.239) collection of video, audio, and photographic materials documenting the activities of MCI and its subsidiaries as well as the development of a competitive telecommunications industry in the United States and worldwide.
    It also offers selections from the MCI Communications Corporation records (Accession 2225) collection, which documents all facets of MCI history from 1968 to the end of the 1990s, as well as changes in the American telecommunications regulatory policy, legislation, and public perception of the industry. Documents in this collection also include records of MCI's subsidiaries and their predecessors starting as early as 1849.

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