By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Aug. 23--After almost 20 years in business, Onvoy Inc., a St. Louis Park-based telecom company catering to small- and mid-sized businesses, is being bought by a Colorado broadband startup.

MCI settles AT&T routing-fees suit Onvoy, accused of being part of the scheme, also agrees to the deal Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg News Tuesday, February 24, 2004 New York -- MCI Inc.

NEW YORK and MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T and Onvoy, Inc. today announced that they have agreed to settle all matters related to claims made by AT&T against Onvoy in a lawsuit filed in September 2003 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Telephone calls don't always travel in straight lines. Guided by sophisticated computer networks and moving at the speed of light, they dance across the globe in wild zigzags, swerves and loops. A call from Maine to Miami might take a jaunt to Sacramento before it streaks along the Florida coast.

WorldCom Inc. told a federal bankruptcy court yesterday that preliminary results from an internal investigation found no evidence that the long-distance telephone company tried to disguise the origin of calls or route them improperly to avoid paying fees to local phone companies.