21.   McClellan said he surveyed manufacturers, wireless phone service providers, and retailers for his survey.

22.   Most notably, Kevin Kennedy, a senior vice president who worked with phone service providers, will leave Cisco to pursue other, unspecified opportunities.

23.   NTT East, the main local phone provider in the Tokyo area, received two million calls in the first three minutes after the lines were opened.

24.   One complaint alleged that phone service providers and makers know the products generate unsafe levels of microwave radiation and that they had sought to suppress evidence of that danger.

25.   Other phone providers have partnerships with satellite companies, but BellSouth would sell its own Americast service via satellite delivery.

26.   Phone providers are bidding on prime phone locations and are offering location owners higher and higher commissions to get their phones installed, he said.

27.   Phone companies have to maintain networks capable of receiving calls from other phone providers, and the termination fee helps defray that cost.

28.   Sales are being propelled by land-based and wireless phone service providers seeking to expand or build networks.

29.   Shares of long-distance phone service providers paced the advance.

30.   Stet is already present in Greece and in Argentina and has bid to acquire parts of state-controlled phone service providers in Hungary and in the Czech Republic.