EXHIBIT 12.1

                        WORLDCOM, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

           COMPUTATION OF RATIO OF EARNINGS TO COMBINED FIXED CHARGES
                            AND PREFERENCE DIVIDENDS
                                 (in millions)



                                                                      For the
                                                                     six months
                                                                     ended June
                                  Year ended December 31,               30,
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                          1995     1996     1997     1998     1999      2000
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Earnings:
Pretax income (loss)
 from continuing
 operations............. $   376 $ (2,272) $   578 $ (1,590) $ 7,164  $ 4,619
Fixed charges, net of
 capitalized interest...     285      315      500      774    1,098      537
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  Earnings.............. $   661 $ (1,957) $ 1,078 $   (816) $ 8,262  $ 5,156
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Fixed Charges:
Interest cost........... $   270 $    308  $   538 $    928  $ 1,287  $   675
Amortization of
 financing costs........       4        4        2       12       18       10
Interest factor of rent
 expense................      16       19       47       78      132       84
Preference dividends....      67       20       63       67      115       52
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  Fixed charges......... $   357 $    351  $   650 $  1,085  $ 1,552  $   821
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Deficiency of earnings
 to fixed charges....... $   --  $ (2,308) $   --  $ (1,901) $   --   $   --
Ratio of earnings to
 fixed charges (1)......  1.85:1      --    1.66:1      --    5.32:1   6.28:1
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(1) For the purpose of computing the ratio of earnings to combined fixed
    charges and preference dividends, earnings consist of pre-tax income (loss)
    from continuing operations, excluding minority interests in gains/losses of
    consolidated subsidiaries, and fixed charges consist of pre-tax interest
    (including capitalized interest) on all indebtedness, amortization of debt
    discount and expense, that portion of rental expense that WorldCom believes
    to be representative of interest, and distributions on subsidiary trust and
    other mandatorily redeemable preferred securities and preferred dividends,
    both of which have been grossed up to a pre-tax basis utilizing WorldCom's
    effective tax rate.