1.   The cost of the service is usually related to the length of time customers are actively connected to the host computer.

2.   A multibillion-dollar industry has arisen to connect business customers with long-distance carriers without going through the local phone company.

3.   A search engine may promote and help connect a customer with other commercial Internet sites such as bookseller Amazon.com for an upfront fee or other payment.

4.   But competing local phone providers complain the Baby Bells are slow or clumsy about getting customers connected.

5.   But Moore noted that the company still must connect its customers to a land-line phone network, which could be costly.

6.   Customers would be connected to a closed-loop heating network through a heat exchanger, a metering device and branch lines.

7.   Customers are connected to the dial-up points and linked to the Internet network.

8.   Fairfax, Virginia-based Uunet Technologies connects business customers with computers to the Internet via high-speed lines.

9.   Fairfax, Virginia-based Uunet Technologies connects customers with modem-equipped computers to the Internet.

10.   Instead, vendors connect customers with third-party lenders or sell the leases to third parties after arranging them.