Word: t1
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...software as well. The most lucrative service in the future, however, may be hooking up businesses to the Net. Currently most consumers access the Internet through their inexpensive plain old telephone line, which cannot handle much information quickly. By contrast, many businesses link to the Internet through specialized T1 lines. Although they can cost up to $30,000 a year, T1 lines can handle enormous amounts of data at very high speeds. "If AT&T can put 50 million consumers on their network, then every business in America is going to want to buy T1s from AT&T," says Halsey...