MCI Signs Five-Year Global Managed Networking Services Contract With ABN AMRO Worth EUR 500 Million

AMSTERDAM and ASHBURN, VA, USA, December 14, 2005 -- MCI (NASDAQ: MCIP) today announced that it has signed a five-year global network integration agreement with ABN AMRO to manage their global data network and firewall platforms. The value of the contract is EUR 500 million (approximately $550 million) over five years.

Cool. We pick up a $550M contract, and I work on some of the software that helps support that contract. Not customer facing stuff - but still, its always cool to support something that is being used in this kind of thing. :)