31.   Cincinnati-based Chemed provides plumbing services through its Roto-Rooter Group and home healthcare services.

32.   Citibank said it will offer customers in the New York metropolitan area a free link to its personal computer banking service through Prodigy Services Co.

33.   Company spokesman Tony Squeglia said the company wants to emerge as a provider of Internet services through a specially designed telephone.

34.   Consumers can either buy its service through purchase of a direct-to-home satellite dish or getting a subscription to their local cable TV company.

35.   Cox Communications provides these services through its new digital networks.

36.   Credits are replenished by selling a good or service through the bartering network.

37.   Currently, Time Warner also has an exclusive agreement with a single company, RoadRunner, to provide high-speed Internet service through its cable lines.

38.   Customers get their television service through the Nynex line, then choose which cable provider to take after that.

39.   Customers who obtain the service through some other provider will receive a substantial discount from the standard price.

40.   Early adopters, Marenzi said, primarily came to the services through Web portals such as Lycos.