1.   And yet, every residential telephone customer in Arizona is still receiving a subsidy, regardless of income.

2.   As a cable provider, U S West will almost immediately begin poaching telephone customers from other telephone companies in their home areas.

3.   At the same time, customers could elect to buy power instead from another supplier, as telephone customers can now choose long-distance service providers.

4.   Backers say the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act will bring high-speed Internet connections to far more telephone customers.

5.   BellSouth plans to allow its telephone customers to review bills and get information about prices and services over the Internet.

6.   Bell Atlantic and Nynex had intended to offer Tele-TV to tens of thousands of East Coast telephone customers, using a microwave transmission technology called wireless cable.

7.   Both the Federal Communications Commission and the California rules would give telephone customers a choice about whether to have their numbers displayed on Caller ID-equipped phones.

8.   Both the California rules and competing federal policy would let telephone customers choose whether to have their numbers displayed on Caller ID-equipped phones.

9.   But a debate has erupted over who should pay the bulk of that investment -- telephone customers or future video customers.

10.   Earlier this month, it formed a joint venture that will make it among the first electric utility companies to challenge Baby Bells for telephone customers.