Caribbean Tel was a big buyer of international minutes. It resold them as pre-paid calling cards that entitled users to a set amount of long-distance or international talk time. The calling card business was booming and when it came to growth CT&T was a model customer. It had gone from a run rate on MCI's network of a few thousand dollars a month a couple years earlier to $10 million by mid-1995. It was high-profit business, about 50 percent—if MCI got paid.
