1.   Clear fought a five-year court battle with Telecom for access, at a price it could bear, to the local call market.

2.   Earlier today, Telecom and Clear Communications said they have reached an agreement which will allow Clear to begin competing in the local call market.

3.   It already has opened the local-toll call market to long-distance carriers.

4.   Japan Telecom Co. bought privately held International Telecom Japan Inc. in March to get a slice of the international call market.

5.   Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. and Clear Communications Ltd. said they have reached an agreement which will allow Clear to begin competing in the local call market.

6.   The company said that its share of the domestic and international call market in Chile had fallen.

7.   While both Telia and Tele Danmark have lost a fifth of the international call market, they still dominate the domestic call business.

8.   After the initial panic, the call market cooled down.

9.   Eventually, if it receives regulatory approval, BellSouth hopes to enter the long-distance call market.

10.   Even the banking behemoth SBI was caught unawares, and was forced to turn borrower in the call market.