gee (plural gees) 1  The name of the Latin-script letter G/g. ( 2 slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars. ten gees. ( 3 physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface. ( US, slang) A guy.
Founded in 1963, it grew to be the second-largest long-distance provider in the U.S. It was purchased by WorldCom in 1998 and became MCI WorldCom, with the name afterwards being shortened to WorldCom in 2000. WorldCom's financial scandals and bankruptcy led that company to change its name in 2003 to MCI Inc. The MCI name disappeared in January 2006 after the company was bought by Verizon.
In April 2000, the companies announced that the Bell Atlantic-GTE merger would take the name Verizon and that the Bell Atlantic-Vodafone wireless unit would be called Verizon Wireless. Verizon Communications owned 55 percent of Verizon Wireless while Vodafone retained 45 percent ownership.