61.   Shares of regional phone companies, like BellSouth Corp. and GTE Corp. and Nynex Corp, also gained.

62.   She signed up with a company called Flashcom, a DSL provider that is one of dozens of new companies competing with regional phone companies.

63.   Solomon Trujillo, chief executive of US West, the regional phone company, called Chambers earlier this year to suggest he buy Netspeed, Volpi said.

64.   So you think you may want to change your regional phone carrier but are totally confused about which carrier to choose?

65.   Telecomunicacoes de Parana SA, a regional phone company known as Telepar, was the second-biggest gainer of the day.

66.   That leaves BellSouth as the last of four regional phone companies to negotiate a deal with the CWA.

67.   The Bells contend that long-distance rivals are cherry picking, and the resulting lack of residential competition has kept the regional phone companies out of the long-distance market.

68.   The big regional phone companies have ambitious plans for offering households high-speed connections.

69.   The Atlanta-based regional phone company vehemently denies involvement in any effort to rig bids, Schweitzer said.

70.   The coalition argues that the FCC has the power to free the regional phone companies from sharing new high-speed access.