1.   McMurphy says, and I barely can hear him over the noise of the phone wires whistling in the walls.

2.   Also, DSL works only over standard copper phone wires that run all the way back to the central office.

3.   Cable television wires have an easier job than phone wires in carrying large amounts of data.

4.   DSL can be delivered over existing copper phone wires, although to catch up with cable will still require a substantial investment from BellSouth.

5.   Embassy officials said Tuesday that there were no water pipes in the tunnel, only electrical and phone wires.

6.   Fearing for his life, he disconnected the phone wires from the box, disarming what police later said was a powerful concoction of two mortar shells.

7.   For consumers, that means homes more than roughly three miles from a telephone switching station have little hope of getting a high-speed connection through phone wires.

8.   Hundt would pay for it through an overhaul of the system of fees long-distance phone companies pay to have their calls originated and delivered over local phone wires.

9.   Local telephone companies, meanwhile, are creating technology that would enable them to offer high-speed Internet connections over conventional phone wires.

10.   Some options include Ethernet, phone wire and wireless networking.