61.   Telecom equipment companies expected to benefit from the expansion.

62.   Telecom companies have built extensive redundancy and backup to prevent any embarrassing technological troubles.

63.   Telecom equipment companies have been bitter disappointments for more than a year now, both as businesses and investments.

64.   Telecom companies are in the early stages of integrating voice, data and video on a single, high-speed network.

65.   Telecom companies have seen a sharp increase in the amount of data flowing over their networks and are looking for ways to route, manage and control the information.

66.   Telecom companies tumbled amid concern shares in the state- run Korea Telecom will start trading as early as June, swamping demand for other telephone issues.

67.   Telecom companies want these and other countries to allow them to sell consumers communications services -- via traditional wires, satellites, or with earth-based wireless networks.

68.   Telecom companies, like Global Crossing, were once worth billions.

69.   That was most particularly seen in areas where it had gotten truly overheated, like the dot-com and telecom companies and certain other related industries.

70.   That could leave the telecom companies looking for more muscular content providers, like Walt Disney Co. or Yahoo.