31.   Telecom Italia is the former national phone company.

32.   That includes an international sale of shares sale of Telefonica del Peru, the national phone monopoly, scheduled for June.

33.   Telkom Ltd., the national phone company, said it awarded the contract to Lucent and Alcatel Alsthom SA, which is based in France.

34.   The combination has no local service component outside the BellSouth region, no national wireless phone service and only token international presence outside Latin America.

35.   The contracts are to provide phone service to areas not covered by national phone company, CA Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela.

36.   The contracts under investigation are for rural areas not served by national phone company CA Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela.

37.   The French and German governments still own majority stakes in national phone companies, and many are selling shares in public offerings.

38.   The offer includes Telefonos de Mexico, the national phone company, which recently opened up to domestic competition.

39.   The offer includes Telefonos de Mexico, the national phone company that recently opened itself to domestic competition.

40.   The news lifted telecommunications stocks as investors put aside concerns about a strike at CANTV, the national phone company.