11.   Since then, PacTel has suffered financially while its former cellular unit, now known as AirTouch Communications, has become a formidable telecommunications player.

12.   The way it works is you have a send-receive device on the side of your house, which communicates with the cellular base unit via radio waves.

13.   One possibility is that Telecom Italia might seek a merger with its cellular unit Telecom Italia Mobile SpA.

14.   Sprint, the third largest US telecommunications company, announced Wednesday that it would pursue a tax-free spinoff of its cellular unit to its shareholders.