11.   Eight new companies were given licenses to offer international telephone service in what was once the exclusive domain of PLDT.

12.   Eight companies now compete with PLDT to provide international telephone service.

13.   Even the international telephone system, which mostly relies on undersea cables, could be crippled.

14.   Growth in data services, residential and international long-distance telephone service, an increase in local phone lines and higher cellular revenue boosted results, Sprint said.

15.   International telephone lines are currently owned jointly by a telephone company at each end.

16.   International telephone service is next-to-nonexistent.

17.   Many of the remote oil-bearing regions where foreign oilmen actually work have no international telephone service at all.

18.   McLean, Virginia-based Sector Communications owns an international long-distance telephone service in Bulgaria and explores for gold in the U.S.

19.   Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said it will apply for permission tomorrow to set up a subsidiary to provide international telephone services.

20.   Olivetti also controls Omnitel, a group that includes various international telephone companies, which is setting up a cellular phone system for Italy.