1.   Instead, they pay basic long-distance rates, which are the highest rates a residential customer can pay, the study says.

2.   And if power marketing companies do approach residential customers, the report warned, poor, elderly and immigrant customers could become victims of fraud.

3.   And of that number, less than half are residential customers.

4.   And the FCC has strictly regulated the fees to ensure that the Bells charge the same amount for calls to business and residential customers.

5.   And residential customers are signing up in record numbers for profitable features like caller ID and voice messaging.

6.   And MCI, Ebbers said, has a lot of these higher-income residential customers.

7.   As a result, the companies have concentrated mostly on larger customers and mostly ignored residential customers in such states as California, which opened its utilities to competition.

8.   As a result, Shames said he was not convinced that utility rates would come down for residential customers.

9.   Before acquiring MCI, Worldcom served hardly any residential customers, and none of the top former Worldcom executives seem particularly enthusiastic about consumer markets now.

10.   Before the fund raising began, FPL had concluded residential customers alone would not contribute enough.