31.   Nortel, which has been shedding business units and cutting jobs as it adjusts to reduced demand, remains an industry leader in supplying optical gear to telephone carriers.

32.   On the building issue, the commission took cautious steps to fuel new competition by imposing rules on telephone carriers.

33.   The model being considered for breaking up NTT would create a new international telephone carrier that would compete with KDD and other existing international long-distance providers.

34.   The unanimous ruling by the Federal Communications Commission will allow companies -- mostly large telephone carriers and TV networks -- to bypass Comsat Corp. in getting services from Intelsat.

35.   Companies are presently competing to see if that information will come via such media as traditional telephone carriers, cable television, satellites or a mixture.

36.   Walter drew ridicule during his first press conference when he admitted that he did not know what long-disance telephone carrier he used in his own home.

37.   The FTC said the defendants made money on the deal when they were paid by the foreign telephone carrier to which the international calls were assigned.