1.   Both Priceline and Expedia buy blocks of hotel rooms at wholesale rates and then sell them to those who bid higher prices.

2.   A few states have adopted wholesale rates for local phone service.

3.   Advertisers will only pay wholesale rates to reach them.

4.   Also Tuesday, commissioners approved an agreement among competitors to set permanent wholesale rates for certain services.

5.   Broadband Digital intends to become something like a reseller of the service, buying it from telecommunications companies for a wholesale rate.

6.   Companies like this buy air time at wholesale rates from larger cellular companies, then resell it at retail prices to consumers.

7.   Consumer activists have charged that power companies are gouging consumers by jacking up wholesale rates during periods of peak summertime demand.

8.   It has stewardship over wholesale electric rates and service standards, as well as the transmission of electricity in interstate commerce.

9.   Like other freight forwarders, Harper buys cargo space from air and shipping lines at wholesale rates and resells the space at retail rates to its customers.

10.   Normally, a rise in wholesale rates would be expected to lead to a rise in retail interest rates, such as home mortgage lending rates.