71.   The agreement extends an alliance that the two have already formed to deliver the rapid connections known as digital subscriber lines or DSL.

72.   The Bells say the legislation would help them expand broadband service through telephone wires that have been transformed into high-speed DSLs, or digital subscriber lines.

73.   The company is aggressively rolling out digital subscriber line technology, or DSL, to transmit high-speed Internet data over phone lines.

74.   The company also depends on increasing use of broadband technologies like digital subscriber lines and cable modems.

75.   The company also is in discussions with digital subscriber line companies to provide high-speed broadband Internet access, he said.

76.   The company owns key technology for digital subscriber lines, or DSL, which provide high-speed Internet access over telephone lines.

77.   The Integrated Network division, called Dagaz Technologies Inc., makes digital subscriber line products that transmit voice and data at high speeds over regular copper phone lines.

78.   The hot technology is called digital subscriber line or DSL.

79.   The Hughes deal follows several similar agreements by America Online with phone companies involving digital subscriber lines, a high-speed phone-line alternative to cable modems.

80.   The industry is also being changed by high-speed, or broadband, access with digital subscriber lines and cable modems.