1.   Antitrust regulators must approve the venture before it can proceed, but the company expects to be operational within several weeks.

2.   It expects that to be operational within a year.

3.   Officials say those units, manufactured by two competing firms, will be operational within a month.

4.   Prison officials said they hope to have it fully operational within a few months, more than a year behind schedule.

5.   The alliance could be operational within three to six months, Sprint said.

6.   The network will be operational within three months, Banamex, as Banco Nacional is better known, said in a statement.

7.   The new plants will be operational within two months, Villanueva said.

8.   The system is expected to be operational within a year.

9.   Officials of the three companies told Central Bank Govenor Gabriel Singson at a meeting Monday that the investment house will be operational within the year.

10.   Serbs say the airport will be operational within days.