61.   Like the telephone network, the Internet proved to be seductive because it offered ubiquitous any-to-any communication.

62.   LONG-DISTANCE TURMOIL IN BRAZIL After competition was allowed in several regions of Brazil last weekend, the long-distance telephone network nearly collapsed in confusion and technical problems.

63.   Lucent sold more of its lucrative software that controls the switches at the heart of telephone networks, boosting its profit margin.

64.   Micromuse said the deal would give it more products and technologies for finding and automatically solving problems in data networks like telephone networks.

65.   Moreover, the winning companies could use their PCS systems to build nationwide telephone networks, blending portable telephones and traditional phone service.

66.   Most Bells do not own cable systems, the most natural way to start a local telephone network.

67.   Most of its money came from selling the multimillion-dollar network switches that route voice and computer-data conversations over local and long-distance telephone networks.

68.   Nynex already has deals with cable companies and so-called competitive access providers giving them access to its local telephone network.

69.   Older analog telephone networks send voices as electronic patterns that mimic natural sound waves.

70.   One of those feeling the pinch was DSC Communications Corp., maker of switching products used in telephone networks.