41.   When the local telephone market develops, the built-in verification procedure could help protect local telephone customers from the illegal-switching that is currently going on in long-distance.

42.   All telephone customers are expected to see savings on their July long-distance bills under a dramatic overhaul devised by the industry and adopted by the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday.

43.   Consumer advocates insist neither bill would benefit cable and telephone customers or TV viewers, a contention supporters of the bills reject.

44.   Fierce competition to attract American long-distance telephone customers has prompted some companies to offer unusual incentives.

45.   Talkline deals with service and customer contact in connecting telephone customers to the networks of various mobile telephone operators.

46.   Telephone customers may receive instant confirmation.

47.   U.S. carriers battle former Mexican monopoly for long-distance telephone customers.

48.   Calls originating from Baghdad, however, remain cut, according to telephone customers in the Iraqi capital.