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First time poster, so please go easy on me.<BR><BR>It seems my DSL modem takes over my phone line, too, and I could use your help figuring out why.<BR><BR>I recently subscribed to BellSouth DSL. With ...

Q. I want to move my home phone to an Internet service, but I have Verizon DSL and the company won't let me deactivate phone service without unplugging my broadband too. Do I have any recourse? A.

My DSL line downloads at 6 megabits per second. I just ran the test. This is over a pair of copper twisted wires, the same Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) twisted pair that connected your ...

Most local phone companies in the United States offer what’s commonly called “naked DSL,” although the companies themselves don’t tend to use that term. Simply put, it’s DSL service without analog ...

Voice over IP base stations are apparently all the rage these days; Softbank has a new one coming out in Japan called the BB Phone Station that basically combines a Vonage-like Internet telephone ...

(1) (Voice Over IP modem) A device that converts Internet-based voice service from the cable or telephone company to the user's telephones. Officially called an analog telephone adapter. (2) (Voice ...

Qwest Communications customers will no longer be forced to buy local phone service when they sign up for DSL, the company said on Wednesday. Starting Feb. 28, customers throughout Qwest's mountain and ...

I'm trying to troubleshoot an Internet and phone problem for some people nearby. They've got bare DSL service through Earthlink now, and used to have an analog phone line. They're here in Silicon ...

Weakness in the broadband Internet market has given big local phone companies an opportunity to jump-start their high-speed Net businesses over the next few months--but only if they can fix enduring ...

BellSouth will stop offering residential customers its DSL Talking service next week, ending one of the first attempts in the United States to sell phone service over digital subscriber lines. The ...

Net2Phone will soon give its customers who make Net-based phone calls two features never offered before: their own phone numbers and the ability to take incoming calls. Net2Phone executives say that ...