Consumers should check with their cable service provider to confirm compatibility with their system.

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Consult your system manufacturer and service provider for availability and functionality.

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Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.

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According to Lucent, telecommunications service provider Global Crossing plans to conduct field trials of the WaveStar system before the end of the year.

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The system, which Arraycomm deployed in partnership with Vodaphone Australia and OZEmail, Australia's biggest Internet service provider, will be available for paying customers by March, Cooper says.

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The existence of Carnivore was revealed when an attorney for Atlanta-based Internet service provider Earthlink Inc. told a House Judiciary Committee in April that the FBI was requiring the company to install the system on its network to fulfill court-ordered surveillance of criminal suspects.

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