MCI WorldCom Provides Media And Broadcasting Companies With Innovative Communications Solutions

Digital Video Services and Media Manager Are New Services
Designed For Television Broadcasters, Advertising Agencies, and Film
Production and Distribution Companies

ATLANTA, AUGUST 25, 1999 -- MCI WorldCom today unveiled two new
On-Net data services, Digital Video Services (DVS) and Media Manager
that will enable traditional media companies to change the way they do
business. Broadcasters, advertising agencies, program syndicators,
movie producers, and other media industry businesses using computers to
create, manage and distribute high-value content can now utilize these
two new services. Both DVS and Media Manager are available immediately.

MCI WorldCom customers, including Messner Vetere Berger McNamee
Schmetterer EuroRSCG, rely on MCI WorldCom's DVS and Media Manager
to conduct critical day-to-day business functions using the latest in
state-of-the-art communications technology.

"Whether it's providing digital transport of programming
for television broadcast companies or enabling advertising agencies to
deliver commercials to clients, MCI WorldCom offers comprehensive
communications solutions for media and multimedia companies. With the
introduction of digital video services and media manager to the
broadcast/media industry, we are effectively increasing the overall
market opportunity for MCI WorldCom," said Jim DeMerlis, MCI
WorldCom's vice president of Data and Enterprise Product Marketing.
"Both DVS and Media Manager provide customers with unprecedented
control and distribution of their creative content. The software
functionality of these two new services enables businesses to improve
their operating efficiencies. "

DVS enables broadcasters to transmit, manipulate and manage their
own bandwidth, setting up and tearing down circuits whenever they want.
Broadcasters can select bandwidths from 1.5 Mbps to 100 Mbps or more.
MCI WorldCom's global fiber-based networks are perfectly suited for
use by broadcast and media industries. DVS uses the MCI WorldCom ATM
network, which provides local-to-global coverage in the United States,
Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

DVS enables users to establish network connections for one-way
transport of video and audio, or set up two-way connections for
sophisticated virtual studio operations such as remote camera control,
lighting, or graphics file creation and transfer. DVS can be configured
to serve multiple locations of the same company, or extended to other
organizations within a community of interest.

Media Manager provides network-based storage, management, retrieval
and distribution of multimedia content including video clips, audio,
photographic images, or publishing material. It features a
high-performance content server and a video streaming platform. Media
Manager is a network-based service that utilizes MCI WorldCom's
award-winning IP network (UUNET) and UUNET's hosting facilities.
Customers are furnished with special software than can be used on their
existing workstations with a customized user interface. Content can be
accessed utilizing MCI WorldCom's On-Net data services, DVS, or via
the Internet.

Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer EuroRSCG, a global
advertising agency based in New York, uses Media Manager to review
creative broadcast commercial content with its client, MCI WorldCom.
Once the agency has loaded a new commercial on the media manager video
server, MCI WorldCom executives can see the new commercial in broadcast
quality on their computer. The executives instantaneously review the
commercial as soon as the rough cuts are ready. "With media
manager, we have been able to dramatically cut the amount of time spent
finalizing a television spot," said Joanne Tilove, Managing
Director at MVBMS. "The service has also enabled us to cut
expenses associated with duplicating video tapes and overnight delivery
services. We also use it to transmit competitive commercials, where the
instant transmission is a real benefit in our extremely fast moving
category. Media Manager has been such an improved way of doing business
that we are eager to use it for our other clients."

Also, Media Manager can be used by photographic print warehouses to
store entire photo libraries and download individual prints to
customers. Additionally, broadcasters can use the service to share news
clips with affiliates. Both Media Manager and DVS are available
nationwide. DVS is available from more than 500 locations in the
U.S.

MCI WorldCom's On-Net Service MCI WorldCom's On-Net provides
business customers with local-to-global-to-local connectivity for voice
and data services. Introduced late last year, On-Net allows business
customers to combine voice and data traffic from local U.S. and
international locations onto one seamless, end-to-end network. On-Net
eliminates the hassle and cost of interconnecting with multiple phone
companies for local, long distance and international communications
services. MCI WorldCom On-Net customers are able to utilize a single
access method for all of their voice, data and Internet services
empowering business with unprecedented flexibility, network
accessibility and significant savings.

MCI WorldCom offers business, government and educational
institutions the industry's most advanced and comprehensive data
services portfolio for both domestic and international applications.
Supported by one of the world's largest backbones, MCI
WorldCom's comprehensive (and ever-growing) suite of data services
provides a VPN continuum through: private lines and SONET private
lines, packet services, circuit switched services, virtual data
services -- frame relay and ATM, as well as vBNS, managed services, and
Internet access.

ABOUT MCI WORLDCOM MCI WorldCom is a global leader in communications
services with 1998 revenue of more than $30 billion and established
operations in over 65 countries encompassing the Americas, Europe and
the Asia-Pacific regions. MCI WorldCom is a premier provider of
facilities-based and fully integrated local, long distance,
international and Internet services. MCI WorldCom's global
networks, including its state-of-the-art pan-European network and
transoceanic cable systems, provide end-to-end high-capacity
connectivity to more than 40,000 buildings worldwide. MCI WorldCom is
traded on NASDAQ under WCOM. For more information on MCI WorldCom,
visit the World Wide Web http://www.wcom.com.