1.   Ameritech, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and Tele Danmark AS beat a joint bid from Koninklijke PTT Nederland and Swiss Telecom for the stake in Belgacom.

2.   Ameritech, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and Tele Danmark AS won over a joint bid by Koninklijke PTT Nederland and Swiss Telecom.

3.   Analysts expected the license to be awarded to Voditel, a joint bid from Belgian utility Tractebel SA and Vodafone, the biggest European mobile phone operator.

4.   Analysts said the joint bid helps Alcatel spread out the risk and gives it a true defense dimension to its proposal.

5.   Belgian utility Tractebel SA and U.K. mobile phone company Vodafone Plc will present a joint bid for the license to compete with state-owned telephone company Belgacom.

6.   ABC and ESPN, which are subsidiaries of Walt Disney Co., made no comment on their joint bid.

7.   Along with his Lithuanian and Latvian counterparts, Estonian President Lennart Meri visited the White House in June to press a joint bid to enter NATO.

8.   BT itself submitted a joint bid for Belgacom with Bell Atlantic Corp.

9.   British Telecommunications submitted a joint bid for Belgacom with Bell Atlantic Corp.

10.   CSW, based in Dallas, Texas, failed the first time it tried for a British utility, going after Norweb in a joint bid with Houston Industries.