Resumen
This article reports on competition between telecommunication companies. The Telecom Act of 1996 has opened the floodgates of competition. Some competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) are now able to grab business and customers from companies that have acted like quasi-monopolies. Telecommunication-based company MCI WorldCom Inc. is probably the best example of what this new telecommunications culture of competition is all about. MCI WorldCom is guided by Bernie Ebbers, was a CLEC once. Ebbers bought MCI Communications, the number-two long distance company, in a $37 billion move that signified the ferociously competitive and increasingly unpredictable telecommunications market. Soon multibillion-dollar deals were being announced almost weekly. These deals were breaking down walls of telecommunications. These companies now wanted to put all that telecommunications had to offer. These companies now want grab the slice of the $100 billion local services market. The Internet has become the biggest component of the communications revolution, which is used by the educators to communicate. In future consumers will spend $56 billion on Internet access services over the next five years. This will help several companies to expand their portfolios