1.   BellSouth said it combined customer service and its marketing units to focus on both long-distance companies and local phone competitors into its network and carrier services group.

2.   BellSouth said it combined customer service and marketing units to focus on both long-distance companies and local phone competitors into its network and carrier services group.

3.   Nor is it clear whether a privatized Bezeq would be forced to give future local phone competitors free access to its hard-wired home hookups.

4.   The Bell companies will be allowed to start selling long-distance service in their home regions once they face local phone competitors.

5.   Two other satellite phone service competitors, Iridium LLC and ICO Global Communications, failed last year.