21.   Those customers will be invited to pick their electric power suppliers from a preselected list, in much the same way they now choose their long-distance telephone service provider.

22.   USA Global Link Inc., a discount telephone services provider, is seeking partners to start a service that routes calls through the Internet in Hong Kong.

23.   While long-distance providers were falling, shares of local telephone providers gained.

24.   A survey by his office found that among the six major telephone service providers in the region, only Nextel charges calls by the second.

25.   Intercellular will be the second private telephone provider allowed in Nigeria, which was long dominated by a government telephone monopoly famous in West Africa for its abysmal service.

26.   It also would create four regional telephone service providers in Japan.

27.   Since the industry was liberalized, about nine new telephone service providers have begun operations.

28.   Telekom, sharply undercut by U.S. telephone service providers, has lagged in responding to the competition.

29.   The company, the largest local telephone service provider in the country, created a digital media studio in Carlsbad, Calif., to develop software.

30.   The Indian government Sunday reportedly converted its monopoly fixed line telephone service provider into a new telecom company that would compete with private enterprises.