31.   Falling prices for wireless communications are attracting vast numbers of consumers, which means that the wireless companies are expanding their networks for sending and receiving data.

32.   FlashPoint, however, wants to find wireless companies, camera makers and Web sites to resell the service.

33.   For example, if a local telephone company loses customers to a wireless carrier, the wireless company does not necessarily profit.

34.   For Sprint Corp. and other large wireless companies, the good news is that everyone seems to be carrying a wireless phone.

35.   For these reasons, analysts expect wireless companies to accelerate a recent trend of forging allegiances and merging.

36.   For FCC officials and the large wireless companies, the case is not over.

37.   From there, Sculley made one more pass at the executive suite, taking over the wireless company Spectrum Information Technologies.

38.   GTE is also the first wireless company to offer hands-free dialing by voice recognition, which it says will make using a car phone safer.

39.   He plans to talk with several other wireless companies.

40.   Holowitz said late fees are somewhat unfair, since many wireless companies, including Verizon and Cellular One, charge customers their monthly fee in advance.