101.   -- Cable companies and long-distance phone companies could begin offering local phone service throughout the country.

102.   -- Denied a proposal to force the Baby Bells to face broader competition from alternative local phone providers before being able to expand into long-distance business.

103.   -- Local phone companies have a big advantage.

104.   -- Taqua Systems of Centerville, which makes voice switches used by competitive local phone companies.

105.   A federal appeals court today halted the start of contentious new federal rules designed to open local phone markets to competition.

106.   A federal court ordered a stay on new government telephone regulations Friday so that GTE Corp. and other local phone companies could present oral arguments against the rules.

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

108.   A federal appeals court on Friday ordered regulators to reconsider two important rules intended to spur competition in the local phone and high-speed Internet markets.

109.   A good example is local phone service.

110.   A customer usually contacts a long-distance company, which then calls the local phone company to arrange taking over the account.