The new competition for Internet Service Providers (ISP) is the new high-speed digital technology. This high-speed digital technology now comes in two different forms: Cable modem or DSL (digital subscriber line). Cable modems piggyback on your local cable TV lines and DSL takes advantage of the already existing phone lines. These two services are competing on availability, security, speed, reliability and finally price. Therefore, let's compare the two. A cable modem is a device that …showed first 75 words of 1318 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1318 total…here is that neither the telephone nor the cable industries are doing everything that they can to roll out their technology very quickly. This is due to the fact that they would be replacing a lot of the infrastructure that they've invested in over the years which is still working fine for carrying telephone or cable-TV signals. They also know that there is the potential of satellite-based Internet access waiting in the near future. (Broersma)