11.   Shares of optical communications providers, including once-soaring component makers like Corning and JDS Uniphase, have plunged this winter.

12.   Shares rose after the company said yesterday its billing unit, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, reached a long-term billing agreement with PCS PrimeCo, a wireless communications provider.

13.   Shares rose after the company said its billing unit, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, reached a long-term billing agreement with PCS PrimeCo, a wireless communications provider.

14.   She acknowledges that the large corporate communications providers have entered some areas and then they left because of political instability, high corruption and vandalism.

15.   The Bethesda, Maryland-based satellite communications provider said it had a first-quarter loss because of expenses at its Ascent Entertainment Group Inc. unit.

16.   The company is the official communications provider for the convention.

17.   The data are then transmitted via a communications service provider to a local television cable company.

18.   The latter alliance includes Pacific Bell Mobile Services and other personal communications services providers using a digital standard known as Global System for Mobile Communications.

19.   The San Antonio-based company is the official communications provider for the convention.

20.   The wireless communications provider is seeking the right to rename the stadium under the proposal.