21. Internet is a global network of millions of individual computers which can exchange data via telephone lines. 22. Microsoft also said it was proposing an open industry standard for delivering data via television broadcast networks, allowing the Internet and television networks to be connected. 23. The communication system will make it possible for branches of Russian banks and airline companies nationwide to exchange data via satellite, the officials said. 24. The equipment being considered can transmit its data via either short wave radio or telephone lines, it said. |