11.   Most people have a hard enough time choosing between long-distance telephone service providers and car insurance companies.

12.   Missed payments on contracts with telephone service providers prompted threats to cut off service, SA Telecommunications said in the petition.

13.   Premiere, based in Atlanta, is a telephone service provider.

14.   That means the company will be able to offer the service without having to work through a local telephone provider.

15.   The bill would break up NTT into two regional companies and one long-distance telephone provider under a holding company.

16.   The bill prohibits the unauthorized switching of telephone service providers for consumers.

17.   The company is now trying to consolidate its contracts with telephone service providers to save more money.

18.   The overall bill prohibits the unauthorized switching of telephone service providers for consumers.

19.   The merger, if approved by regulators, would create the largest local telephone service provider in the country.

20.   The proposal, first announced last December, would split up NTT into two regional companies and one long-distance telephone provider under a holding company.