By the end of this year the three Bells intend to offer movies and television programs to their telephone customers.
On Long Island, more than 11 percent of the 24,000 pay phones are owned by telephone customers.
He said there was no consensus among experts on whether such a move could result in lower rates for telephone customers.
They also vaunted their plans to make the network available to every telephone customer.
But impatience and frustration on the part of telephone customers in eastern Germany is higher than ever.
The company has also said that it would offer the Worldnet service to each of its 90 million business and residential telephone customers.
Cellular telephone customers totaled 1.4 million, an increase of 453,000.
"Ninety percent of our telephone customers never even set foot in the store."
California has the largest number of low-income telephone customers in the nation.
The plan for a new area code in Manhattan has raised questions among telephone customers.
