Instead they are providing television sets that can be plugged into the Web via a telephone line or television cable.
Analysis by Dr Roberts showed that only one fifteenth of the capacity of a telephone line used to remotely connect to a mainframe was used.
For example, residents of the U.S. are prohibited from playing due to the 1961 Wires Act that prohibits the placing of a bet or wager over a telephone line.
As more and more services can be assembled far from the customer and sold down a telephone line, it becomes easier to produce them where skilled staff come cheap.
People tolerated it: they considered it the price of economic growth, the cost of doing business, the quickest way to win a contract (or just get a telephone line), a perk of political power.
ADSL, a technology that turns a standard telephone line into just such a fat pipe.
When Louboutin was ten, he asked his mother for a private telephone line.
And it is far from clear that people will want to buy all their services from one supplier, even if they can be beamed down from the sky without having to bother with a cable or telephone line.
SIB's proposal to offer the public a single telephone help-line for calls on everything from motor insurance to pensions.
Fewer than one in 250 people have access to a fixed-line telephone.
Applied Micro Technology uses the vertical blanking interval to allow Internet data to piggyback on a television broadcast at up to five times the speed of a standard modem and telephone line.
Problems with a new non-emergency NHS telephone advice line have prompted Shropshire health chiefs to divert calls back to a local service.
The organisation representing British doctors has written to NHS bosses to call for a delay in the launch of a new non-emergency telephone advice line.
Virtually any entity that implements a tip line (either by telephone or web-portal) and commensurate training program will see lower losses and shorter detection times to stop the losses and catch the perpetrators.
Chambers, which includes Oak Island, has sustained "widespread damage, " a message on the county's emergency telephone line said.
Ostergaard demonstrated how a user can dial a telephone number from the keypad of a Palm and connect a cordless headset to a regular fixed-line desk phone.
The two companies are already developing a range of cheap and portable Internet appliances that will enable people to use on-line services as routinely as they make a telephone call.
The copper telephone line that ran to every house was regulated as a common carrier.
Mrs Shand Kydd, 66, said the telephone line had been cut and the house ransacked in a burglary that appeared to have been carried out by professional thieves.
In a real world application, that is about 15 million times faster than the 64, 000 bits -- 64 kilobits -- a second you are most likely getting from your home or office telephone line.
Prices are reasonable, electricity blackouts are relatively rare, and even if the average wait for a phone line is over eight months, Costa Rica has better telephone coverage than much of the region (see chart).
"This includes wire for video, which is the coax wire, and that runs the cable television on it. (And) a data line, which runs data to the upstairs as well as the telephone, " home technology consultant George Ide said.
On another occasion, a man contacted BT, giving Miss Dando's ex-directory telephone number and address and asking for her line to be changed to his name.
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