Revenues at America's fixed-line local and long-distance carriers have fallen back since peaking in 2000, and forecasts suggest that revenues will slip further over the next few years partly as VOIP providers grab their business.

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The company maintains 20 million access lines in service, has approximately 7.2 million long-distance customers and nearly 2.9 million digital-subscriber-line subscribers.

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O'Gara was also off-target with a long-distance effort and then David Wallace appeared to have crossed the Edinburgh line but no try was given.

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What if every second line in the country is a cell phone -- and if people do a lot of their long distance calling on the second line?

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Its access charges to rivals, once at 5.8 cents per minute in revenue that competitors collected on long-distance calls, now are down to a penny a minute for traffic that starts or ends on a Telmex line.

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