1.   As more cellular operators join the market, they need to buy more systems from companies like LG Information and Samsung Electronics Co.

2.   Beyond that, most of the potential cable partners would be starting from scratch in wireless communications, while the telephone companies are already big cellular operators.

3.   A number of foreign companies have provided equipment financing, consulting, and network construction assistance to cellular operators in China.

4.   Cellular operators use radio waves under license from the FCC.

5.   Cellular operators, having built their networks years ago before competition hotted up, need add only incremental capacity to match demand.

6.   Cellular operators in Southeast Asia witnessed long ago how rural populations can benefit from being connected.

7.   Competition among cellular operators intensified last July when the government abandoned plans to streamline the industry through forced mergers.

8.   Instead of simply cloning local numbers, they are capturing numbers from one city and using them on phones in a different company served by a different cellular operator.

9.   It is one of the few independent cellular operators in the United States.

10.   McCaw built what was the largest cellular operator in the U.S. from the ground up.