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BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Rosenbush & Haddad	Commentary: MCI Is under a New Cloud, but It Can Weather the Storm While the allegations could slow down the timetable for getting out of bankruptcy, there's little chance that those plans will be derailed.
InternetNews February 3, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Said to Bid $6B For MCI The Baby Bell reportedly makes a $6 billion offer for the long-distance specialist, but Verizon is also interested.
InternetNews March 22, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Blasts MCI Over Disconnected Talks CEO Richard Notebaert has harsh words for MCI's board and even harsher ones for rival bidder Verizon.
InternetNews April 25, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest For MCI Rewarded Qwest's $9.7B offer is one MCI can't refuse, but Verizon may not be done.
InternetNews December 28, 2005 Jim Wagner	Verizon, Covad Mend Fences Covad Communications and Verizon settled their longstanding differences and sealed the deal with a DSL line-sharing agreement.
InternetNews February 14, 2005 Jim Wagner	Verizon Makes Move On MCI Following the SBC-AT&T mega-merger blueprint, Verizon aims for a global enterprise reach in a deal worth $6.7 billion.
Fast Company October 2003 Charles Fishman	Thanks for Nothing Michael Capellas of MCI calls a press conference to announce not much at all.
InternetNews March 16, 2005 Jim Wagner	Qwest Readies New Bid For MCI Qwest's chairman says its bid will demonstrate its commitment to winning MCI... Verizon faces pressure to raise its own MCI Bid.
InternetNews March 24, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI, Qwest Return to The Table The decision to resume the exchange comes after Qwest CEO blasts MCI for stopping acquisition talks.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 Ben McClure	Does MCI Deserve More? MCI should, at the very least, consider Qwest's takeover bid. Qwest has a whole lot to gain from the merger. With both companies relying on a lot of stock to fuel their takeover bids, the distinction counts for MCI shareholders.
InternetNews April 5, 2011	Verizon Settles with U.S. Government Allegations that Verizon overcharged the government end with Verizon paying $93.5 million.
InternetNews February 23, 2004 Ron Miller	Legal Battle Ended for AT&T, MCI The long-haul and VoIP rivals agree to settle a lawsuit over whether MCI passed along fraudulent call-routing charges.
InternetNews February 24, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Will Persistence (and Cash) Pay Off For Qwest? Qwest restructures its bid for MCI, putting new pressure on MCI's board and Verizon's standing bid.
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Gives MCI 2 Weeks For Qwest Talks Verizon is confident MCI will conclude that a Verizon-MCI deal is more compelling than a Qwest-MCI combination in terms of long term prospects - despite a lower price tag.
InternetNews October 6, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI Shareholders OK Verizon Merger MCI shareholders today voted to accept Verizon's $8.4 billion takeover offer, moving one step closer to completing telecom's latest mega-merger.
The Motley Fool April 6, 2005 Bill Mann	MCI: Show Me the Money How is it possible that MCI can claim that a bid that is 20% higher than Verizon's is inferior? Investors, read on.
InternetNews December 7, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Open Source Advocates Slap Verizon With GPL Lawsuit U.S. telecom giant Verizon is coming under fire for allegedly violating the open source GNU General Public License.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2004 Phil Wohl	MCI Exits Bankruptcy Can the former telecommunications industry giant be competitive?
InternetNews April 11, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI Shareholders: Verizon's Slim Deal Sounds Shady Some shareholders are upset that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu is receiving a higher price for his MCI shares than they are.
InternetNews March 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI Chooses Verizon, Spurns Qwest MCI accepts Verizon's merger offer after the Baby Bell raises its bid by $1 billion, to $7.6 billion.
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Palmeri & Grow	Why Qwest Can't Take No For An Answer MCI's board has accepted Verizon's bid over Quest Communications for the second time, but the fight isn't over yet.
InternetNews August 19, 2005 Tim Gray	Group Blasts Verizon-MCI Merger The California ISP Association says the planned combination of voice and data heavyweights would lead to less competition and higher prices. For the merger to go forward, the companies must get approval from the federal government and several state governments.
InternetNews January 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Verizon Completes MCI Takeover Verizon completed its $8.4 billion purchase of MCI today, creating the nation's second largest telecom carrier behind the new AT&T, which itself is a newly formed merger between the former long distance carrier and SBC.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 Philip Durell	How You Can Profit from Bankruptcy Investors have earned over 50% in six months on bankruptcy survivor MCI. Here's how.
InternetNews June 15, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Deephaven Wants to Deep-Six MCI-Verizon Qwest has said it's time to move on after MCI accepted a lower takeover offer from Verizon, but Deephaven Capital isn't ready to give up.
InternetNews December 2, 2009 David Needle	AT&T, Verizon Hang Up Their Lawsuits Even with the settlement, Verizon's 'There's a map for that' ads that poke fun at AT&T's 3G coverage will continue.
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Won't Quit; Verizon Swipes Back Qwest may revise its $8 billion offer for MCI again, while Verizon refutes some earlier claims.
InternetNews May 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI Returns to Verizon After a brief flirtation with Qwest, MCI's board endorses Verizon's new $8.4B takeover bid.
InternetNews July 7, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Verizon Looking to Disconnect Directory Pages Verizon announced plans by year's end to shed its domestic yellow pages business to concentrate on its Internet endeavors. The split allows the telecom to focus on FIOS and other Internet services.
InternetNews May 18, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI CEO Predicts Fast Merger Approval Michael Capellas is optimistic that his company's merger with Verizon could close by year's end.
InternetNews November 5, 2004 Colin C. Haley	VZ Wireless Clears More Spectrum Opening its coffers to improve its coverage, Verizon Wireless said it will pay $3 billion in cash for all of NextWave Telecom's spectrum licenses.
InternetNews April 24, 2007 Roy Mark	Ruling: Vonage Can Still Woo Appeals court allows Vonage to continue soliciting new business while appealing patent infringement verdict won by Verizon.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 David Henry	Will Dividends Drive A Slew Of New Deals How do you make a $6.7 billion deal look like a $5.3 billion bargain for shareholders? A look at the prerequisite 2003 tax cut on dividend income, and fallout from Verizon's purchase of MCI and beyond.
InternetNews March 31, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Isn't Done Yet Qwest submits a third bid for MCI and chastises the network operator's board.
InternetNews September 1, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI-Verizon Merger Vote Set MCI shareholders will weigh in on Verizon's acquisition offer next month.
InternetNews March 1, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest to MCI: Why Not Us? Qwest's CEO said during a meeting with financial analysts that he wants to find out why MCI prefers a merger offer from Verizon.
InternetNews May 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Bids Bitter GoodBye to MCI Pursuit Qwest has harsh words for MCI and winning bidder Verizon as it drops its three-month pursuit.
InternetNews January 6, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Report: WorldCom Class-Action Accord Near Former directors said to settle a suit stemming from accounting fraud for a total of $54 million.
InternetNews February 17, 2005 Jim Wagner	Qwest Prepares New MCI Bid Qwest will take another run at the long-distance carrier in hopes of displacing Verizon.
The Motley Fool February 14, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Goodbye, MCI As expected, there's more consolidation in telecom. Verizon and MCI plan to merge in a $6.75 billion deal.
InternetNews May 25, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest CEO: MCI Pursuit Over Company to focus on partnerships and other acquisitions.
InternetNews April 22, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Ups Bid For MCI The regional carrier makes its 'best and final offer' of $9.7 billion for the network services provider.
CFO July 1, 2004 Joseph McCafferty	Extreme Makeover How Robert Blakely and an army of accountants turned fraud-ridden WorldCom into squeaky-clean MCI.
InternetNews October 28, 2010	Verizon Settles With FCC for $25M The $25 million settlement resolves charges that Verizon profited from millions of dollars in accidental data charges to customers over the past three years.
InternetNews May 13, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Closes in on MCI Stake Verizon will soon own 13 percent of MCI after a $1.1B deal with a private stockholder. But the larger merger vote looms.
InternetNews April 5, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Wants Props by Midnight The carrier provides additional financing commitments and wants to hear by midnight if MCI is leaning its way.
InternetNews April 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Quiet Ahead of MCI Deadline The carrier has until midnight to try and displace Qwest as MCI's merger partner.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Qwest Revives MCI MCI strikes deal with Qwest for local phone access.
InternetNews May 10, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Verizon Dumping Landlines? Verizon is reportedly considering a sale of 5 million landlines amid growing interest in wireless.
InternetNews September 14, 2007 Caron Carlson	Verizon Lawsuit Muddies Spectrum Auction Plan Verizon filed a lawsuit this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit asking the court to review the FCC's "open access" rules.