11.   A digital broadcast subscriber can now receive, for example, cable channels like HBO and MTV, but cannot get local news and sports.

12.   A competing technology that operates over phone lines, known as digital subscriber line technology, can match its speeds but is generally more expensive.

13.   A few thousand are hooked up to the new digital subscriber lines, the technology whose development the consortium wants to shape and accelerate.

14.   A. Most of the digital subscriber line services written about these days refer to ADSL, or asymmetric digital subscriber lines.

15.   A. Security and privacy issues are causing more and more concern among users as high-speed connections like cable and digital subscriber lines become more available to the home market.

16.   All regional Bells offer digital subscriber lines, DSL, as the path for high-speed access to the Net.

17.   BT will run the trial using a technology called asymmetric digital subscriber link, or ADSL.

18.   Broadband technologies like digital subscriber lines, or DSL, and cable have been slow to reach rural America.

19.   But DSL, or digital subscriber line, is out of reach for millions of Californians in rural and even some suburban communities because the technology is distance limited.

20.   But it has been the leader among them in deploying high-speed Internet service using an advanced phone technology called digital subscriber line.