1.   Analysts expect the licenses to expand to five, from two, the number of wireless providers in each major city.

2.   Any given market can have as many as seven wireless providers compared with two competitors in a market for cellular service today.

3.   Avesair president Kong said that wireless providers could use his products to offer cut-rate services.

4.   Bidding for a different wireless provider, especially Voicestream or Nextel, would be expensive.

5.   A representative of the largest wireless provider in the San Francisco area protested the legislation, saying that if approved it would require customers to dial additional digits.

6.   After months of research, I switched wireless providers.

7.   Consumers may complain about costly roaming fees, which wireless providers charge when customers use their phones outside their service area.

8.   Dayton set up Boingo Wireless to strike agreements with various wireless providers.

9.   For the auction, Telebras was split into three local phone companies, one long-distance carrier and eight wireless providers.

10.   For wireless providers, that means it is time to find partners.