Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!nobody From: INTERMAIL@A.ISI.EDU (Robert Gutierrez / MCI ID: 367-9829) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: MCI develops revolutionary new technology! Message-ID: Date: 23 Dec 88 08:41:09 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 39 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 208, message 8 quoting >All you wimps that get your long-distance telephone service from AT&T and >Sprint are gonna be real sorry now. MCI has developed an astounding new >technology that will change life as we know it. In fact, be on the alert for >shadowy organizations with names like "MCI World Control" or "MCI Global >Domination." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ >>From the November/December 1988 issue of _MCI_Connections_: > >"Faster than the speed of sound...faster than the speed of light...MCI's >[registered trademark] Worldwide Direct Dialing lets your voice travel around >the world in seconds." I'm trying not to laugh too hard at this one. It just means that TAT-8 is up and working, and we have access to almost all of the world if the number can be direct dialled. Now our world domination can start..... :-) Robert Gutierrez MCI Telecommuncations World Domination Center :-) (aka: Western Region Trouble Management Center) Hayward, California (the usual disclaimers apply) ["deesclaimers, we don't need no steenking deesclaimers.....ha, ha, ha] AND A HO! HO! HO! MERRY XMAS TO ALL OF YOU FROM TOWNSON & JSOL AT TELECOM DIGEST HEADQUARTERS/BOSTON UNIVERSITY/BOSTON/USA. DON'T GET GREEDY WITH THOSE PRESENTS OR WITH THE TURKEY DINNER.