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Verizon Booting Hundreds Of MCI Agents And Squeezing Rest: Page 2 of 9

Those not offered the 2007 VSPP contract now stand to lose the residual income from the customer bases they built under MCI, sources said. In the short term, this group will continue to earn residual income from their legacy MCI customer base. But the instant a Verizon agent, or Verizon's inside sales team, sells a legacy MCI customer any new service, renews an existing service, or alters the customer's contract in any way, the residual income agreement in place under MCI's old contract ends, sources said.

"Yes, we are in trouble. But let's just say we are looking at options," said a legacy MCI agent who did not get offered the contact and now stands to lose thousands of dollars a year in legacy residual commissions.

Verizon declined to comment on this story, and would not provide the exact number of legacy MCI agents who were not presented VSPP contracts.

All legacy MCI agents - even those offered VSPP contracts - risk losing the hard-won residual income from their legacy MCI customers, sources said.

Because of this, there is talk among legacy MCI agents offered the VSPP contract - many of whom transact millions of dollars worth of business a year - to unite and not sign the contract at all. The aim here is to perhaps force Verizon to take the choke-hold off their ability to earn money, sources said.