Bernard Ebbers
Bernard Ebbers
Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbersis a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 August 1941
CountryCanada
adds chairman choice commission cost innovation list merger opposition policies raise reduce rural services telephone ultimately
Opposition to this merger just adds to the list of (Federal Communications Commission Chairman William) Kennard-Klein policies that ultimately will reduce innovation and choice and raise the cost of telephone services for residential customers, particularly those in rural America,
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We have now hit the ground running with new products and we will soon be in full stride as one company.
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The almost four full quarters of approval process were put to good use in planning the integration of our operations by a team experienced in integrating merged companies.
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We are exploring opportunities to separate portions of our switched voice operations into separate companies or tracking stocks,
benefits best both compelling customers enhanced growth merger ownership past performing powerful products services stock value
The benefits of this merger are compelling for the stockholders of both MCI and WorldCom -- powerful synergies and ownership in the best performing communications stock over the past decade. This merger is about growth -- value for stockholders, enhanced products and services for customers and new opportunities for employees,
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It is very clear from our financial performance that our employees remained focused on delivering results. Our core management and employee strength -- which has predominantly come from successful mergers over the years -- continues to drive industry-leading performance,
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We have intensified our focus on what we do best -- provide core communications services, ... Including today's announcement with EDS, over the past year we have shed virtually all of our non-communications services businesses.
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WorldCom condemns unauthorized carrier switches, and we cooperated fully with the FCC's review, ... The incidents highlighted by the FCC were perpetrated by a few sales employees, who have since been terminated.
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With this merger, WorldCom accelerates by 12-to-18 months our ability to provide world-class managed Web and application hosting services -- one of the highest growth markets in the industry,
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Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.
technology finance accounting
I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.
marketing coaching good-coaches
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
apology apologizing
I didn't have anything to apologize for.
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I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.