21.   Ameritech Corp. -- Chicago-based Ameritech provides local phone services in five Midwestern states.

22.   Among other things, this will enable Dolan to offer phone service over cable wires.

23.   Ameritech Corp. is the regional Bell telephone company that provides local phone service to most Illinois residents.

24.   An interactive TV trial is under way in Orlando, Fla., and phone service is being tested in Rochester, N.Y., but neither one is commercially available.

25.   An official at MCI Corp. said the company remains interested in bidding on the Colombian phone service, despite the delay.

26.   And each home is linked on a fiber-optic network that provides data services, digital television and digital phone service.

27.   Analysts welcomed the move, while saying DDI will have trouble squeezing additional profit out of the competitive market for international phone services.

28.   And he predicted that this new competition will force down the cost of local phone service.

29.   And how should new local competitors, like the long-distance carriers or cable companies, share in the burden of providing residential phone service to poor customers?

30.   Analog phones offer American consumers a low-cost way to try out wireless phone service without the big investment for a digital phone.