Alcatel has filed a petition with the F.C.C. to block Northpoint's license request.

One, they say, is a growing backlog of license requests - about 60,000 projected for this year.

The driver's license request had seemed odd enough.

Given the timing of Conjay's license request, American officials concluded that the guns were almost certainly not going to remain in Britain.

The key obtained was based on data from the computer, which limited use of the key to the computer generating the license request.

The legislation did not state that Cuba cannot purchase medicines from U.S. companies or their foreign subsidiaries; however, such license requests have been routinely denied.

But he said the department was prepared to hire as many as 23 people, mainly to review license requests.

State Department officials admit that they have been swamped by license requests since taking charge two years ago.

Once Product Activation is initiated, a digital license request is sent to Microsoft over the internet.

It now submits individual license requests for each export sale - and is frequently turned down.