1.   Ameritech is in the thick of a battle for local phone service customers in Chicago.

2.   Auto dealers also say they also want their salespeople to be like friendly hosts, and not pushy opportunists, in dealing with sales and service customers.

3.   By focusing on the financial, retail and communications industries, Nyberg is abandoning previous efforts to service customers in the consumer goods, transportation and public sectors.

4.   CSW is holding focus groups to determine what sort of communications services customers in these cities want to buy.

5.   EMachines had hoped to profit by selling its customers Internet services and putting advertising on its computers.

6.   Even Ford has developed a financing arm to service customers that are deemed credit risks.

7.   High-end financial services customers will own them.

8.   New Power also abruptly halted the signup of new electricity service customers in Texas.

9.   The first local service customers were signed up by competitors only last year.

10.   The more services customers can get from a single phone company, the less likely they are to switch, analysts say.