1.   Among its provisions, the regulation allows customers to keep their telephone numbers if they switch phone companies.

2.   But hundreds of other businesses, from large corporations to local delicatessens, refused to switch carting companies even after Browning Ferris offered much lower bids than cartel members.

3.   But some switch companies if the price is right.

4.   By the time she got home, she had decided to switch long-distance companies after three years or so as an MCI customer.

5.   Customers would be allowed to transfer their old numbers to a new line, even if they switch phone companies.

6.   Early evidence suggests that only a small percentage of household and commercial customers are switching electric companies.

7.   Fifty dollars to switch power companies.

8.   He can also switch companies, because New York has a so-called continuous open enrollment law that virtually bars carriers from rejecting any senior citizen.

9.   He recently switched companies.

10.   He switched companies last week in order to get more hours, including overtime, to cover his meager living expenses.