The company maintains 20 million access lines in service, has approximately 7.2 million long-distance customers and nearly 2.9 million digital-subscriber-line subscribers.
Similarly, Dell announced it will begin shipping a new line of Dimension PCs with factory-installed Cisco Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line modems for select U.S. West customers.
Many of Sky's set-top boxes have a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) port on the back that can link to a high-speed net service.
But a raft of SVP volunteers moved in, evaluating a new phone system, setting up e-mail, installing a digital subscriber line connection and redesigning her Web site.
This development has prompted the former incumbents to accelerate the introduction of DSL (digital subscriber line) technologies to provide high-speed Internet access over the phone lines, Sarkar added.
Alcatel holds a dominant position in the digital subscriber line (DSL) market, which provides high-speed Internet access over conventional phone lines.
In addition to losing its digital subscriber line business, Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people), a JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) competitor, is losing its chief operating officer, Clarence Chandran .
It found that 2003 was a good year for consumers, with competition driving down the cost of a high-speed net connection over the phone line via ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
Main.net's gear already serves 10, 000 European homes at speeds of 500 kilobits a second, roughly equal to average cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) speeds, but a tenfold increase over standard dial-up modems.
With bulked-up networks, they have poached millions of phone companies' subscribers with cheap voice-over-Internet Protocol plans and sell faster Internet lines than the telcos' digital subscriber line services.
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