1.   And because he is so close, he can make calls on his cellular phone using the Hong Kong mobile network.

2.   Deutsche Telekom MobilNet GmbH and its partners can build a GSM mobile network in the Czech Republic without borrowing money, a company official said.

3.   Mobile cellular networks cost more to build, but their growth has shot past that of hidebound and state-owned fixed-link services.

4.   Moreover, regulators need to forge regional mobile networks into a cohesive national grid.

5.   Operators of mobile networks also made what has turned out to be an ill-judged bet on future demand.

6.   Still, the rush to develop third-generation mobile Internet networks continues, even as jittery markets have begun to wager on the gamble under way.

7.   Vodafone has the biggest U.K. mobile network and a string of investments in overseas mobile phone networks, including in Fiji, France and Germany.

8.   Orascom claims to be the largest global system mobile network operator in the Middle East and Africa.

9.   He said after the planned expansion, Saudi Arabia will have the largest mobile networks in the Middle East.

10.   He is brimming with talk of mobile GSM networks, fiber-optic connections, even basic phone service.