The Verizon-MCI Merger
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Case Details:
Case Code : BSTR259
Case Length : 19 Pages
Period : 2000-07
Pub Date : 2007
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Verizon, MCI
Industry : Telecom
Countries : US
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Verizon announced its intention to acquire MCI in February
2005. The deal was finalized only in October 2005, as another telecom company,
Qwest Communications International Inc.6 (Qwest) was also vying for MCI and
offered higher bids. Subsequently, Verizon increased its offer price for MCI,
which was still lower than Qwest's offer.
However, the management of MCI chose to merge with Verizon due to long term benefits that would occur to MCI's
shareholders. The merged entity was named Verizon Business, which functioned as
a division of Verizon, and integration was completed in January 2006.
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In the financial year 2006, Verizon Business recorded
revenues of US$ 20.5 billion and its operations reached more than 2,700 cities
in 150 countries.
Verizon Business offered large business customers advanced IP services, managed
network services and virtual private networks. The customers of Verizon Business
included 94% of Fortune 500 companies.
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According to Benjamin Powell, Director, Center on
Entrepreneurial Innovation, The Independent Institute, and Assistant
Professor, Economics, San Jose University, "The Verizon and MCI merger
is driven by competitive pressure. Sprint, Motorola, and Intel are
working together to provide high-speed wireless communications and other
firms are innovating as well. Verizon is a regional telephone service
provider and a major competitor in wireless telecommunications. MCI is a
long-distance carrier and a major provider of Internet backbone. Nobody
can predict what innovations a merged Verizon-MCI will create, but the
increasing integration of communications has made the potential
synergies between these companies obvious."...7 |
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