MCI wins contract for air-control link
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The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded MCI Communications Corp a 10-year $558 million contract to provide long-distance service in a network that links air traffic control systems across the US. The network will replace an older system implemented by AT&T. AT&T's system crashed in September of 1991 and paralyzed the air traffic control system in New York. MCI's system, called the Leased Interfacility National Airspace Communications System, was designed with extra backup capacity and should prove to be more reliable than previous systems. AT&T and Sprint Corp both competed for the government contract, but failed to win support. AT&T is disappointed with the decision, while Sprint believes the decision was hasty and should be suspended until further review.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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Loss of millions seen in U.S. phone contract
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Members of the US Congress are criticizing the US General Services Administration's (GSA's) management of a $25 billion contract for the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) 2000 computer network. The government arranged for AT and T to receive 60 percent of the revenue and for US Sprint Communications Co to receive 40 percent of the revenue; AT and T is to receive more because its rates are 30 percent lower than US Sprint's rates. US Sprint has actually received more than AT and T for the first two years of the contract and will report revenue of $273 million through the end of the 1990-1991 fiscal year while AT and T will receive only $229 million for that same period. The US General Accounting Office charges that the GSA allowed overcharging by US Sprint.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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'Baby Bells' bill may face a Bush veto
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The Bush Administration threatens to veto legislation, which is under consideration in the US Senate, that would allow regional Bell telephone companies to manufacture communications equipment. The Administration supports the objectives of the bill but objects to a provision that would require manufacturing to take place in the United States. According to the Administration, the provision would 'undermine important international trade objectives and detract substantially from the bill's own stated objectives.' Bell companies have been prohibited from manufacturing equipment and from offering long-distance services under the rules that governed the breakup of AT&T. The prohibitions were originally established to prevent unfair competition by the phone companies.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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