digital subscriber line
DSL

Despite seven months of promises, I learned recently that there would be no high-speed digital subscriber line in my home.

One type of service, a digital subscriber line, is often not available to homes more than three miles from a phone company switching station.

Their house was too far from Verizon's central switching office to get a faster digital subscriber line.

It now controls 90 percent of the market for high-speed digital subscriber lines.

To compensate, the company is expanding the coverage of its wireless network and digital subscriber lines.

Cavalier offers high speed internet service through digital subscriber lines.

"Here, consumers rely heavily on digital subscriber lines from phone operators; they don't really have a choice."

Images will look even sharper with a digital subscriber line.

However, these considerations apply equally to the investments by local telephone companies in digital subscriber lines.

The lack of standardization is one potential problem for introducing digital subscriber lines nationwide.