1.   Regional telephone companies, long-distance carriers, and cable television operators are among the giants considering Internet forays.

2.   Also attending will be John Smith, chief executive of General Motors, and Richard McCormick, chief of U.S. West, a large regional telephone company.

3.   Ameritech and other regional telephone stocks surged after a federal appeals court extended a freeze on pricing rules designed to increase competition in local phone markets.

4.   Ameritech, a regional telephone company, fell for a third day as investors reevaluated the benefits of a new telecommunications law enacted by President Bill Clinton.

5.   Among those who attended the breakfast session on Monday was Tim McKone, vice president for congressional relations at SBC, the regional telephone giant.

6.   Americast, a venture of Walt Disney Co. and four regional telephone companies, has experienced cutbacks but is rolling out service.

7.   Ameritech is the third regional telephone company to change its accounting standards and take a big charge against earnings.

8.   Analysts expect regional telephone companies to expand into new markets and computer concerns to buy networking or Internet companies to round out their product lines.

9.   And some of the companies that provide regional telephone service finished the day in negative territory.

10.   Antitrust officials find little fault with mergers between huge regional telephone companies like Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp.