Social networks are nothing new, but their role as big providers of news certainly is.

Some big providers of financial services have discovered this truth, too.

Nearly a year ago, the same four big e-mail providers who filed the lawsuits promised to work together to create such a system.

Now, it is the biggest provider of municipal sport facilities within the M25, with more than 250,000 members.

Sprint is the No. 3 long-distance carrier and a big provider of local phone service.

Here are some of the options for others who may find themselves in similar situations: * Choose a big provider.

I'm sure Wayport, the other big provider, is going to start doing the same thing.

"But really the biggest providers of parkland in this country are churches and schools."

It has always been the biggest provider of funds, but giving money is obviously much easier than agreeing a common political line.

Regional carriers, like the big national providers, are struggling with this problem.