31.   Nonsense, countered Mory Ejabat, chief executive of modem maker Ascend Communications.

32.   No news was released on the Skokie-based modem maker.

33.   One of those is the modem maker Best Data Products.

34.   Other companies leading the index advance were modem maker U.S. Robotics Corp. and telemarketing company APAC Teleservices Inc.

35.   Other companies leading the decline were modem maker U.S. Robotics Corp. and consumer finance company First Merchants Acceptance Corp.

36.   Research In Motion, a wireless modem maker, and BellSouth introduced a new e-mail ready pager called Blackberry this week.

37.   Rockwell manufactures Kflex chip sets used by a variety of modem makers.

38.   Since then, modem makers have made enormous strides in error correction and in pushing ever more information through standard phone lines.

39.   Speed has always been the central issue for modem makers.

40.   That is because modem makers all buy their microprocessing chips from the same handful of chip manufacturers.