11.   Some industry analysts caution it is far too soon, however, to declare the local telecom market is in anything like a free fall.

12.   That client base is shrinking as phone and cable-television companies team up to better position themselves for the new telecom market.

13.   Stratus last year reached a deal with Lucent allowing it to reenter the telecom market.

14.   The gains came as the World Trade Organization postponed talks on opening telecom markets worldwide, after U.S. negotiators said some offers to open foreign markets were inadequate.

15.   The Korean telecom market is now divided between four Korean-owned companies.

16.   The move surprised some analysts, though the government had been reviewing ways to liberalize the telecom market and lower business costs.

17.   The report cited anonymous sources at the WTO as saying the proposal will be considered at talks in Geneva this week on opening world telecom markets.

18.   The Retevision sale is setting the stage for the latest showdown among the major telecommunications alliances that are scurrying to divide up the world telecom market.

19.   The U.S. wants the EU to ease restrictions on foreign investment in the telecom markets of France, Spain and Belgium.

20.   While the accord will spur investment in telecoms markets, much of that money will be spent in emerging markets far from Europe.