11.   Sprint too has national presence as a provider of telecom services, while BellSouth is a regional player.

12.   The Americans are also taking a tougher stance than other countries on international telecom services.

13.   The commission has repeatedly warned that European industry at large stands to lose out from the high cost of telecom services.

14.   The company also recently moved to focus on telecom services and leave the equipment business.

15.   The outlook for the rest of the year may be hurt as a slowdown in business activity puts the brakes on demand for telecoms services.

16.   Ultimately, it became clear that increased demand for telecom services from consumers or corporate customers was not going to build.

17.   As a colleague pointed out, running an Internet services business is different from running a telecom services, although the two are closely related.

18.   Coopers and Lybrand has drawn up a new tariff structure for all telecom services and the interconnection charges to be levied on each telecom provider.

19.   McCue said there are many options for TOT and CAT, either to provide only infrastructure to others or provide retail and wholesale telecom services.

20.   Most national telecom services are run by a single government-owned monopoly which commands healthy profits but often saddles customers with high prices and poor services.