81.   Bell Atlantic Corp. -- Philadelphia-based Bell Atlantic provides local phone services in the Middle Atlantic states.

82.   Bell Atlantic is developing a fiber-optic network in Philadelphia that it plans to expand into other markets to improve its phone services.

83.   Bell Atlantic said it will file applications to offer long-distance phone services to its local customers in the fourth quarter.

84.   BellSouth Corp. asked a federal appeals court today to overturn a Federal Communications Commission decision that keeps it from offering long-distance phone service to South Carolina customers.

85.   BellSouth is at loggerheads with MFS Communications, a leading provider of alternative phone service to business customers that is now branching into residential service.

86.   BellSouth Corp. announced record revenue and earnings Tuesday, citing the quarterly results as a clear sign the company is shifting away from dependence on traditional local phone service.

87.   BellSouth is among the larger investors in the Latin American telephone market, but has concentrated thus far on wireless phone service.

88.   BellSouth Mobility offers wireless phone service through the Southeast as well as in three other cities.

89.   BellSouth provides local phone services in nine Southeastern states.

90.   BellSouth, the dominant provider of local phone service in the Southeast, is in the business of providing a connection.