WorldCom Declares Fourth Quarter Cash Dividend On Its Depositary Shares"

JACKSON, MS, (September 19, 1997) WorldCom, Inc.(Nasdaq/NM:WCOM)
today announced that it has set November 24, 1997, as the record date
for the quarterly cash dividend payment of $0.67 on WorldCom
Inc.'s Depositary Shares, each representing a one one-hundredth
interest in a share of Worldom, Inc. Series 8% Cumulative Convertible
Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable in cash on December 1,
1997.

WorldCom is a global business telecommunications company.
Operating in more than 50 countries, the company is a premier
provider of facilities-based and fully integrated local, long
distance, international and Internet services. WorldCom's
subsidiary, UUNET Technologies, Inc., is an international provider of
Internet services with over 1,000 Points of Presence (PoPs)
throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe and the
Asia-Pacific region. WorldCom's World Wide Web address is
http://www.wcom.com

. The common and depositary shares of WorldCom trade on the Nasdaq
national market (US) under the symbols WCOM and WCOMP,
respectively.