By contrast, Sprint has invested heavily in technology that can bring fast Internet access and multiple telephone lines to houses and small businesses through a single connection.

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The company also announced its ComQuest software, which allows a user to bind multiple analog telephone lines in order to increase the speed of browsing the Internet or downloading files.

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And texting has become far easier, even with much-bemoaned touch screens, than using the old telephone keypad with multiple letters per button.

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But recently, while I was watching "Telephone" for the fifth or sixth time, and scouring the Web for deconstructions of its multiple meanings, I began to understand why I love it so much.

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