71.   Cox Communications is not alone in using its cable systems to offer advanced services such as cable modems.

72.   Cox Communications, for example, now offers high-speed Internet connections through cable modems in parts of its systems in Orange County, Calif., San Diego and Phoenix.

73.   Companies like AOL want to let their customers gain access to their own content through fast cable modems.

74.   Currently, a few cable television companies in selected metropolitan markets offer high-speed Internet access to PC users over special cable modems.

75.   Customers access the Internet by using a cable modem that sends and receives information via cable TV lines.

76.   Cox Communications, which is majority owned by Cox Enterprises Inc., sells cable modems in California and Arizona.

77.   Customers who sign up with ISP Channel buy or lease a cable modem which connects to their home cable.

78.   David Cooperstein of Forrester Research said cable modems, which use the cable television network to deliver high-speed Internet access, will probably beat DSL to market.

79.   Digital subscriber line is the equal of cable modems, and Bell Atlantic says they will start rolling it out later this year.

80.   Downloading has been on a par with cable modem and DSL, but the uplink has been via a conventional dial-up line.