Cable and high-speed phone lines have a head start.
But for now the signs are promising and this is a high-speed phone.
Ten years ago, videoconferencing systems were complicated and erratic, and ran on expensive, closed high-speed phone lines.
The F.T.C. is requiring AOL to continue offering D.S.L. -- a high-speed phone line technology that competes with cable modems -- as a condition of approving the merger.
Lucent said it received a $175 million contract from Hughes Tele.com of India to build a high-speed phone network in India.
Moody's said DoCoMo's high-speed phone service, introduced in October 2001, has attracted just 149,000 subscribers, far fewer than anticipated.
To get Internet phone service, customers must subscribe to either a high-speed phone line, known as a digital subscriber line, or a cable network.
As such, a telephone company like Verizon that offers high-speed phone lines for connecting to the Internet cannot exclude an Internet service provider from its network.
Eight times today, I mouse-clicked through a high-speed phone line onto the Internet, where I searched the Nexis database of newspaper articles...A computer is as close to indispensable as any machine I own.
In the United States, In-Stat reported 7.12 million cable modem subscribers at the beginning of 2002, compared with 4.6 million subscribers for the high-speed phone lines known as D.S.L.
The leading Japanese mobile phone company, NTT DoCoMo, said its net income fell 13percentt for the most recent quarter as it increased spending on promotions and discounts to attract customers to its high-speed phone service.
