11.   The obvious beneficiaries of such windfalls should be the local telecoms firms that already have customers in the grip of their copper tentacles.

12.   The obvious beneficiaries of such windfalls should be the local telecoms firms that already have customers in the grip of their copper tenacles.

13.   Under international agreements, phone companies make a payment - the accounting rate - to foreign telecoms firms for handling the receiving end of a call.

14.   Other local telecoms firms opted out of the competition for the licenses, citing high start-up costs and unpredictable returns.

15.   Phaichitr said Suthep had been been in office for just three months but had already done a lot for the telecom firms.

16.   Adisai said telecom firms have different ideas because each one has its own ambition to pursue and that creates a picture of competition between TOT and the private sector.

17.   Almost all telecom firms have high dollar exposures in their loan portfolio.

18.   Analysts say it may use the Asian currency devaluations to acquire another regional telecoms firm.

19.   Anonymous leaflets were sent to newspapers Monday alleging the Democrat MP had favoured certain telecom firms while awarding state contracts.

20.   But Dumlao said the telecom firm would still have to put up lines in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao and several areas in the Southern Tagalog region.