1.   Some experts were alarmed earlier this year when diagrams showed that four regional phone companies who are building components of the superhighway were only connecting wealthy communities.

2.   Among the regional phone companies, BellSouth was the only one taking the wireless entertainment route.

3.   Ameritech, like the other regional phone companies, has been diversifying into services and other telecommunications-related businesses in anticipation of deregulation.

4.   Ameritech Corp. may slide after the U.S. Justice Department recommended that the regional phone company be denied its application to provide long-distance telephone service to customers in Michigan.

5.   Analysts say none of the other six regional phone companies across the country is as far along as Bell Atlantic in the regulatory process.

6.   And many cable and regional phone companies will be in the digital game in a few years.

7.   And three regional phone companies are planning a joint venture to develop video networks.

8.   At least two other regional phone companies, Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp., have been discussing a possible deal for months.

9.   BellSouth was the last of the remaining regional phone companies to settle with its unionized employees.

10.   Bell Atlantic, the regional phone company on the East Coast, has started offering long-distance service in North Texas.