1.   New telecom companies will be allowed to hook into the national phone system.

2.   Although Spain still lacks a law establishing and regulating cable television services, the national phone operator is well positioned to launch a cable network.

3.   An arbitration panel created to resolve deadlocked contract talks at national phone company CA Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela plans to hold its second meeting Tuesday, CANTV officials said.

4.   And the big national phone companies, which provide the phone lines, are waiting to see whether free calls increase their volume.

5.   AOL has joined with paging services, a national phone company and several of the companies that make the wireless devices used by those services.

6.   At CANTV, the national phone company, workers are scheduled to take a strike vote this afternoon.

7.   Bezeq, the national phone company, which is selling controlling interests to private investors, was hit by wildcat maintenance walkouts last week to protest planned staff reductions.

8.   After dozens of interviews, he chose Pedro Cerisola, a top executive for Telefonos de Mexico, the national phone company.

9.   CANTV, as the national phone company is known, is expected to offer its workers a new contract as early as next week to avert a strike.

10.   Canada still could improve its offer by moving up the timetable for lifting its monopoly of Teleglobe, the Canadian national phone company.