Snatching BT's bride

摘要

Head to head over the worried form of MCI, two quite different adversaries now confront each other. On one side is the pride of traditional telecommunications: Britain's BT, one of the few of the old national monopolies to have gone private, slimmed down, spruced up and tried to reinvent itself as an eager youngster. On the other is WorldCom, almost unheard of five years ago and now America's fourth-largest long-distance carrier and the world's biggest Internet access provider. If its brash bid for MCI goes ahead (see page 73), it will leap to second place behind AT&T.