51.   ICC also has begun looking for customers by circulating application forms in its service areas.

52.   In addition to allowing utilities to sell power beyond their traditional service areas, the rule lets non-utility companies like oil and gas producers generate and sell electricity.

53.   In Illinois, two electric companies won state approval last month to open their service areas to competition.

54.   In the customer service area, Boeing has cut the average time it takes to respond to airline requests for spare aircraft parts from nine days to eight hours.

55.   In the financial services area, they ask whether regulators will be able to adequately oversee new conglomerates that, should they encounter difficulties, could pose systemwide problems.

56.   In some service areas, companies offer a free analog phone with the contract.

57.   Iridium partners such as Bakrie are responsible for building the gateways and linking the Iridium system with local wireless providers in their service areas.

58.   It allows a business to provide remote customers in Jfax service areas with phone numbers that require only local calls.

59.   It reports to Traffic.com, which knows of no other such group in its service areas.

60.   Its service area includes Corpus Christi, the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo and Bay City.