1.   You can enter it through one of the major on-line services, or a smaller commercial provider.

2.   As the defense industry consolidates, Litton becomes a smaller provider of information services to the military.

3.   By offering CompuServe as an Internet provider, Netscape will be an ally in putting heavy pressure on smaller providers such as Netcom and UUNet.

4.   Fairfax, Virginia-based UUNet changed its peering policy because more smaller Internet providers were asking to use its network for free, he said.

5.   For example, Microsoft is moving away from the conventional strategy of signing up lots of smaller content providers, Weiner said.

6.   He believes some smaller Internet providers could prove to be attractive takeover targets, providing subscription lists and ready-made infrastructures.

7.   He found the smaller local provider to be more helpful.

8.   In April, after a complaint by a local Internet company, the Kentucky Public Service Commission ordered BellSouth to lower its DSL rates to smaller Internet service providers.

9.   In the U.S., Fresenius Medical Care has made acquisitions as price pressures squeeze smaller providers of dialysis services and force the industry to consolidate.

10.   In the U.S., the Fresenius Medical Care unit has made acquisitions as price pressure squeezes smaller providers of dialysis service and forces the industry to consolidate.