21.   The company must comply with federal limits on the number of cellular businesses it can own.

22.   The company should be able to maintain its leading market share as the Thai government is preventing new entrants to the cellular business, Kim said.

23.   The company will retain its cellular business in Alaska.

24.   The earliest players could be Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp., which have already merged their cellular businesses, and MCI Communications Corp, the paper said.

25.   The primary reason for the spinoff was to free the cellular business from that prohibition, among others.

26.   They combined their cellular businesses in July and their customer base spans the Northeast corridor.

27.   Two regional Bell telephone companies, Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp., announced plans in June to merge their cellular businesses.

28.   Whatever value one might want to place on Lin, it is hard to ignore the explosive growth in the cellular business in the last year.

29.   AT-and-T said the ruling validates its argument that the merger would increase competition in the cellular business.

30.   Celcom was represented by its vice president cellular business division Zubir A. Rasid, while MDC was represented by its executive chairman Tan Sri Dr Othman Yeop Abdullah.