Part one of term paper
There is a new technology being developed that would make standard phone lines digital instead of analog. This technology is called DSL, or digital subscriber line. Because of DSL's great superiority over our standard analog lines, all of the US's phone lines should be upgraded to DSL. One of DSL's advantages would be line sharing. Becaus ...

Part two of term paper
... someone could be on the internet and talk on the phone at the same time, all with one phone line. Another advantage of greater bandwidth is faster internet connections. On a normal analog phone line, the fastest internet connection available is 56 kb/s (kilobits per second). With DSL, the normal speed is 384 kb/s with the max at 1.1 Mb/s (megabits per second). With DSL, one's computer could be online at all times. There would be no busy signals or dial-in hassles. If someone wanted to look som ...