1.   Any company that plans to compete as a full-service communications provider will need the financial muscle that mergers provide, he said.

2.   BellSouth, the main local communications provider in the Southeast, is investing in high-speed Internet access using a technology known as digital subscriber line, or DSL.

3.   Both of those companies had already agreed to be acquired by Global Crossing Ltd. of Bermuda, another strapping young communications provider.

4.   Both will be competing for the same juicy contracts with Baby Bells and wireless communications providers.

5.   France Telecom is also rumored to be interested in taking over the Dutch communications provider Equant.

6.   Just as it has dual power feed, the company will have two communications providers, Nynex and Teleport.

7.   Many competitive local communications providers spend millions of dollars tearing up streets to create new fiber optic networks.

8.   Nextel, based in Rutherford, N.J., has been an aggressive acquirer of wireless communications providers.

9.   Rather, PACS will help current cellular and future personal communications service providers enhance their coverage area and increase capacity, the companies said.

10.   Rosenfeld said a Hungarian communications service provider is due to lease a transponder too.