Bill McGowan became involved as a private banker with a small Midwestern company, Microwave Communications Inc. that was trying to sell microwave telephony services to truckers.

FORBES: MCI's Bill McGowan Proved That Telephony Competition is Good for Consumers

Until Bill McGowan came on the scene in 1974, American Telephone and Telegraph had controlled all aspects of telephony in the United States through its monopoly position.

FORBES: MCI's Bill McGowan Proved That Telephony Competition is Good for Consumers

Decades ago, well before Steve Jobs imagined the iPad, or cellular telephony was made cheap enough for everyone to own a cell phone, or before there was an internet as we know it Bill McGowan saw the future we are all living.

FORBES: MCI's Bill McGowan Proved That Telephony Competition is Good for Consumers