51. As a result, phone service to the airport stopped. 52. As for access charges on ISPs, Cady claims her company and its customers already pay plenty for phone service. 53. As it turned out, if I had had both charges and phone service from the start, the orders might have been more than I could have handled. 54. As previously reported, TCI also expects to launch phone service in the Bay Area, in an alliance with Sprint, by year-end. 55. As the ink on the new law was drying, MCI said it would become the first U.S. long-distance company to offer local phone service in Boston. 56. As their first endeavor, Sprint and its cable partners will bid in December on licenses to deploy the next generation of wireless phone service. 57. As the competition for phone service begins to heat up, the companies offering dial-around have been aggressive, hoping to undercut the big long-distance carriers. 58. AsiaDera.com also offers free Internet access and long-distance Internet phone service and features video from television networks in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. 59. As the cable companies complete the upgrade of their systems, they will begin offering local phone service, and Sprint is entitled to a slice of that revenue. 60. At the same time, competition from the Bell operating companies, which sell phone service in local U.S. regions, is intensifying. |