Although he was successful in getting the Egyptian carriers to cooperate, some Egyptians still managed to get online by making international data calls from old-fashioned telephonemodem lines.
Both factors contributed to cementing our confidence that we could not only explore the Internet on our own, but do so quickly and without the screeching sound of a telephonemodem.
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.