11.   Excel has tackled the marketing problem by signing up a vast network of telephone customers who pitch Excel long-distance service to earn fat commissions.

12.   He was also an early telephone customer, and apparently one of the first to complain about Ma Bell.

13.   Hundreds of complaints have rolled into the PUC from angry telephone customers who have pleaded to no avail for individual telemarketers to quit calling.

14.   In Britain, though, telephone customers pay by the minute for local calls, which means a so-called free Internet connection can still be costly.

15.   In Germany and throughout most of Europe, telephone customers are begging if not screaming for alternatives to the state monopolies.

16.   Instead, after years of being stuck with one or two choices, telephone customers have suddenly become the belles of the ball.

17.   It also said its telephone customers could have five hours of free Internet access each month.

18.   It was not clear how that helped Norwegian telephone customers or the development of Norwegian technology, but as a battle tactic it had precedent.

19.   Last month, applications for the no-call list were mailed with telephone bills to all telephone customers in the state.

20.   MCI Worldcom, he said, would become the only company so far to build alternative networks to serve both residential and business local telephone customers.