He brought in veteran telecom executives who owned a fast-growing wholesale long-distance business.

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He brought in veteran telecom executives who owned a fast-growing wholesale long distance business.

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Rather, TRW is working with Nortel Networks to build signal-splitting chip sets fast enough to eliminate bottlenecks on the next generation of long-distance optical telecom networks.

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The move, executives say, will keep the long-distance business from dragging on the fast-growing business of selling data services to business customers.

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Spurred on by the recent purchases of the No. 1 and No. 2 long-distance companies, rumors about future deals are flying fast and furious among analysts, telco employees and investors.

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