Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us (Eric Schnoebelen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Montgomery Ward Selects MCI Message-ID:Date: 18 Aug 89 21:20:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: JBA Incorporated, Lewisville, Tx. Lines: 38 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 307, message 5 of 8 In article you write: - On Tuesday, Montgomery Ward and Company announced that MCI had been selected - to provide private network service to its 420 locations. - - Terms of the 3-year, multimillion dollar agreement were not disclosed. Wards - said the selection followed a six month comparative test of MCI, Sprint, - AT&T and other carriers. - - Montgomery Ward's corporate phone bill is approximatly *one million dollars - per month*. - - I'd say MCI landed a juicy one this time. MCI has landed several juicy contracts recently. Another that they landed was the House of Representative network. The House has opted out of FTS 2000 ( or at least that is the word around here. ) Now for a little bragging... MCI has been using our (JBA Incorporated's) Hybrid Network Design System to design voice networks for their customers for the last three years, including the House of Representatives, and probably Montgomery Ward's. The eastern regions have been most successful in using our design system to make sales, with both of the eastern regions running full time, and still not being able to get everything they need done done. ( I won't say anything about the western regions... :-) ( We also have three RBOCs, one switch manufacturer, and a network integrator as customers.. ) Publish this or not, as you see fit, but I felt a small need to brag about how MCI is winning these contracts. :-) Eric --- Eric Schnoebelen, JBA Incorporated, Lewisville, Tx. work: egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us home: eric@egsner.cirr.com MS-DOS: The Cockroach of Operating Systems