1.   Aware is developing a kind of telephone modem that uses a data-compression system called Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, or ADSL.

2.   A special telephone modem from the back-porch control room eventually will do the job.

3.   A user who wants high-speed Internet access will still need a cable modem or DSL telephone modem.

4.   Internet data in such a system travels at speeds far higher than those achievable with a telephone modem.

5.   Inside is a TV camera, telephone modem and fancy electronics to compress audio and video so they can pass with acceptable quality over standard phone lines.

6.   Most home Internet users rely on telephone modems.

7.   Most of what you do on the Internet at home works fine at the speeds you get from an old-fashioned telephone line modem.

8.   Perhaps the most valuable elements of the IBM network are its banks of local telephone modems around the world, tied together by international fiber-optic lines.

9.   So I started to keep track of what I was missing with the telephone modem.

10.   That service lets them use a wireless keyboard and an ordinary telephone modem to surf the Internet, send e-mail and flash instant messages on their TV screen.