51.   Like Bullwinkle the Moose, forever sticking a massive mitt into his top hat, the wireless companies repeatedly convinced themselves they were about to produce a rabbit.

52.   Local zoning restrictions are posing significant problems for wireless companies eager to expand their networks nationwide.

53.   Liberty, which is in an experimental alliance with Nynex, is an insurgent wireless company that sells cable service in bulk to large apartment buildings in Manhattan.

54.   McCaw Cellular was a major purchaser of Motorola cell phones, and so is Nextel, a wireless company in which McCaw is a primary shareholder.

55.   Most major wireless companies offer some form of Web service.

56.   Most wireless companies make cell phone numbers the identifier, followed by the wireless company address.

57.   Nextel, the first wireless company to offer digital cellular, paging and radio-dispatch services on one phone, is banking on converts like Ireland.

58.   Now, thanks to several auctions of wireless licenses by the Federal Communications Commission, there will be as many as nine wireless companies in each market.

59.   Now, there will be as many as nine wireless companies in each market, thanks to a recent auction of wireless licenses by the Federal Communications Commission.

60.   Nortel has been so badly hurt by all this they may have to exit the optics business completely and turn themselves into a wireless company.