By Christopher Stern, Washington Post Staff Writer

(中文大意)

　　曾为美国第二大长途电话公司的世通电信公司因财务丑闻宣告破产保护后，经历了21个月的重组过程，摆脱了350亿美元的债务，将于美国当地时间4月20日上午6时正式改名为MCI。世通公司使用MCI品牌以非正式的方式进行业务往来已经超过一年。

　　世通自2002年7月21日起就有了改名换姓的打算，当时世通因涉及美国历史上最大的财务丑闻案（金额达110亿美元）而申请破产保护。

　　新的MCI公司将焕然一新。MCI将原来的7万员工裁减为5万，仔细审查了管理高层，解雇了直接或间接卷入财务丑闻的100名管理人员。

　　世通首席执行官迈克尔-卡佩拉斯（Michael D. Capellas）在重组过程中扮演了主要角色，公司债权人和联邦机构对他带领公司在成功摆脱破产保护阴影这一过程中表现出来的能力赞赏有加。但卡佩拉斯必须证明世通在市场上的竞争力，因为客户希望得到一系列的服务，包括市话和长途电话、无线服务以及网络服务。

　　卡佩拉斯说：“我们不准备自欺欺人。未来这一年中境况会比较艰难。”卡佩拉斯还表示，世通准备在短期内将工作重心放在争取企业客户上，这些客户占公司总营收的80%，世通将提供基于互联网的服务，这些服务使得企业客户能够通过互联网拨打市话和长话。

WorldCom Inc. is set to end its tumultuous 21-month journey through bankruptcy reorganization tomorrow when it plans to emerge as a new company under a new name, freed of more than $35 billion in debt.

At 6 a.m., WorldCom is to become MCI Inc. The company has been doing business informally under the MCI brand for more than a year.

The Ashburn-based telecommunications giant has been preparing to take on its new identity since July 21, 2002, when it filed for protection from its creditors after revealing the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history.

The new MCI will be much different from the former WorldCom, the nation's second-largest long-distance phone company. It reduced its debt to less than $6 billion from $41 billion. It has trimmed its workforce to about 50,000 people from more than 70,000. It has overhauled it senior management and rid itself of about 100 executives who were implicated directly or indirectly in the $11 billion accounting scandal.

WorldCom chief executive Michael D. Capellas has played a central role in the reorganization, during which creditors and federal authorities praised his ability to steer the company through Chapter 11. But now Capellas must prove he can keep WorldCom competitive in a marketplace where customers expect a variety of offerings, including local, long-distance, wireless and Internet service.

"Nobody is kidding themselves. In the short term it is going to be a tough year," Capellas said.

In the near term, WorldCom plans to focus on its business customers, who account for 80 percent of the company's revenue, offering Internet-based services that allow companies to "put local, long-distance and Internet all on the same network," Capellas said.

For residential customers, Capellas said the company would concentrate on high-density urban areas where WorldCom has established its own networks and does not have to lease lines from other companies.

WorldCom will compete for customers at a time when new rivals, such as cable television companies and Internet phone service providers, are entering the marketplace. Much of the telecommunications industry is engaged in a price war as federal regulators free companies

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