Other alternative carriers account for another 14 percent.

But what of alternative carriers of heredity?

BT has slowly worked to reduce costs, finally enabling it to lower prices to a level alternative carriers deem fair.

The volume of business grabbed by these alternative carriers is a small fraction of the overall telephone business, estimated at only $150 million a year.

I reckon the transfer to alternative carrier will be Saudi!

It's a risky initiative because they are entering a market with several strong alternative carriers.

The network trading system has been designed to take this into consideration and switch to an alternative carrier.

Shares of other alternative carriers also gained on hopes that they, too, would get a financial bailout.

Local telephone companies are losing business as corporate customers rely more heavily on private satellite networks and alternative carriers that offer low-cost fiber-optic circuits.

The alternative carriers say the proposed plan sets access fees above Nynex's costs and much too high to allow them to provide a low-cost service.