Its coast-to-coast network of 5,700 branches towers over the 894 Citibank locations nationwide.

The expanded Nine Network becomes the first coast-to-coast network.

This month it struck a deal with Vodafone Airtouch, Britain's largest wireless concern, to combine their United States wireless operations and create the nation's largest coast-to-coast network.

For MBNA, the merger offers access to Bank of America's coast-to-coast network of branches to attract new customers.

He eventually played the lead on Buckingham Theatre the most prestigious program on Canadian radio's coast-to-coast network.

Greyhound, which had a $55.8 million loss in the first quarter, spent $70 million to reconstruct its coast-to-coast network, including $20 million on security and legal expenses, Mr. Currey said.

Now publishers are looking for ways to sell national ads via a coast-to-coast network of magazines.

Sprint PCS plans to build a coast-to-coast network, but its customers cannot use their phones in other countries.

The proposed merger has already had an enormous impact on the communications business, fueling a race among long-distance companies and the Bell companies to develop their own coast-to-coast wireless networks.

The new company plans to set up free-standing brokerage offices, and furnish services to other banks as part of a coast-to-coast network of representatives.