At first, consumers reached the Internet through a call over a telephone line to an internet-service provider.

起先，消费者通过电话线路向一个互联网服务提供商发送呼叫来上网。

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You type a note or a letter on your screen and then you send it down the telephone line to another person for as little as it costs you to call your service provider.

在屏幕上输入一张便条或一封信，然后通过电话线把它传给另一个人，这样就能将通讯费用减到最低程度。

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They may claim to be from your Internet service provider in the subject line or have a similar address to that company's name.

他们可说是从你的互联网服务供应商在网上或类似的主题报告，该公司的名字。

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With 55 percent of all U.S. households beholden to a single, fixed-line provider of broadband access (mostly cable modem service), the Commission should consider how each of its rules affects broadband investment.

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Because DirecPC is still tethered to phone-line modems for Web page and e-mail requests, I must dial into my regular Internet service provider to get started online.

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The phone might be able to list the locations of several nearby and the service provider might charge a certain gas station a few dollars to put it at the head of the line in that list in the same way Google.com charges for its search-based text ads.

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