81.   Pacific Bell is promising to wire any public library in its service area with a digital phone line that will allow libraries to offer public access to the Internet.

82.   Phone companies rose on optimism that earnings would soar with increasing demand for cellular phones and digital phone lines, analysts said.

83.   Rather than transmitting voices over radio waves, like cell phones, digital phones convert conversations to a series of computer-coded sounds which sound like gibberish.

84.   Qualcomm Inc. said fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose almost fourfold as sales more than doubled amid strong demand for its digital wireless phones.

85.   Qualcomm is seeing strong demand for its wireless phones and equipment and shipped a record number of digital phones and the computer chips used in them in the quarter.

86.   Representatives of the cellular-telephone industry pointed out that normal use of digital phones has not been shown to cause any interference with pacemakers.

87.   STET has an advanced digital phone network throughout most of Italy capable of high-speed connections to the Internet.

88.   That said, digital phones have many major advantages, including better voice quality and protection from eavesdropping.

89.   The additional circuitry makes digital phones more expensive.

90.   The compact phones have a full range of features, power and convenience comparable to almost any digital phone.