61.  ATG and other rivals are trying to persuade the state Public Utilities Commission to slash the fees to make local service more profitable.

62.  Bell executives argued that their mergers will make them stronger competitors in the long-distance market and internationally, better at serving customers for local service.

63.  BellSouth Corp. will now discount Internet access to customers of its most popular calling plan for local service.

64.  BellSouth currently faces competition, mostly for the local service needs of large companies, a market more lucrative to serve than residents.

65.  BellSouth once had a monopoly on local service, but now local service is morphing into broadband.

66.  Both intend to be online matchmakers for consumers and local service providers.

67.  - Sign up now for local services.

68.  -- The Internet has so many thousands of local service providers that some problems are bound to occur.

69.  A cellular customer in rural Sonoma County could use a satellite phone when out of reach of a local service such as Cellular One.

70.  A big backbone company, like Uunet, makes money by charging transmission and service fees to corporate customers and local Internet dial-up services.