51.  Like cable television companies, telephone companies must obtain a municipal franchise to deliver video services.

52.  Mabon decided two years ago to examine whether the company could solve the video-on-demand problem and created a video services division six months later.

53.  Meanwhile, Microsoft and NBC are cooking up an Internet video service of their own.

54.  Mr. Willes says part of our problem is that newspaper people spend too much time worrying about how to utilize the next wave of on-line video services.

55.  Northern Telecom said this morning Vyvx Inc., a leading provider of digital video services plans to deploy Northern Telecom equipment on its North American network.

56.  Nippon Telegraph recently formed a joint venture with Andover, Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp. to provide video conferencing services in Japan.

57.  Pacific Bell only began marketing its video service to Hollywood three years ago, but already it brings in tens of millions of dollars in revenue.

58.  PacTel is also experimenting with interactive video services.

59.  Otherwise, they warned, ordinary telephone customers would finance the new construction whether or not they used the new video services.

60.  Several of the Bells announced plans a few years ago to upgrade their copper-wire networks to carry video services.