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...higher than the deep discounters charge (see chart). Schwab's secret has been to knock down the wall between its online business and its 5 million regular account holders, giving everyone access to the entire range of products and services available at the firm. These include round-the-clock, dial-up brokers and technical support, and a financial supermarket that offers 1,500 different mutual funds...
With the HomeLink system, you use a modem to connect to BankBoston's encrypted dial-up system via the phone lines they provide with their software. (You can't access HomeLink over the Internet yet.) Enter your personal identification number (PIN) code, and you're ready...
...area codes were added because the Boston area was running out of numbers in its current ones, due to an increasing demand for pagers, cellular phones, dial-up Internet connections and fax lines...
...Netscape make it even easier to use the Internet's open standards for browsing the Web, chatting and sending mail. AOL hopes the WorldCom deal will eventually allow it to offer higher-speed access through phone lines, but cable and wireless technologies could lure impatient users away from cumbersome dial-up services. Customers could also become turned off by the increasingly intrusive ads, upon which AOL's flat-price business model now depends. And while Microsoft has yet to perfect its own MSN service, even Case observes that Gates' behemoth usually gets things right on the third or fourth...
...been to Logan recently, you've probably seen posters advertising Juno's free Internet accounts. Nationwide dial-up access and Web service is provided at no charge to the end user...