Intertel Communications Inc, currently legally a Canadian company, says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American: it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission, which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think, by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences – there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK.