The company had 626, 000 dial-up customers, down from 741, 000 a year ago, with 526, 000 broadband customers, down from 609, 000.

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It leases a data network supporting 4, 000 dial-up numbers--more than AOL, he says.

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We were able to dial 30, 000 numbers within a two-minute period.

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Or that they signed up 200, 000 new dial-up users last year alone.

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The five-year-old firm, a cable-TV operator with about 30, 000 Manila customers, began offering Internet-over-cable in July as an alternative to conventional dial-up access.

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