gee (plural gees) 1  The name of the Latin-script letter G/g. ( 2 slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars. ten gees. ( 3 physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface. ( US, slang) A guy.
Founded in 1963, it grew to be the second-largest long-distance provider in the U.S. It was purchased by WorldCom in 1998 and became MCI WorldCom, with the name afterwards being shortened to WorldCom in 2000. WorldCom's financial scandals and bankruptcy led that company to change its name in 2003 to MCI Inc. The MCI name disappeared in January 2006 after the company was bought by Verizon.
MCI Worldcom dissolved a previous alliance with the Internet search engine Yahoo when MCI sold off its Internet business to Britain's Cable and Wireless for $1.75 billion and closed its merger with Worldcom.he new service allows MCI Worldcom to re-enter the consumer Internet business that the MCI Communications Corporation exited last year. MCI sold its Internet operations to gain regulatory approval for its $40 billion acquisition by Worldcom Inc. last September.