PHILADELPHIA - High-speed Internet access over ordinary telephone lines is a technology that was to pave the promised information superhighway -- but for most consumers it's become a road to nowhere.

While less then 10% of the worldwide installed telephone lines are today equipped with DSL technology, shipments continue to expand, and this market segment is bound to grow in coming years. Although ...

DSL technology, already struggling for corporate dollars, was smacked down yet again last week when the Federal Communications Commission voted to phase out line-sharing over the next three years.

This time we’re continuing our discussion of packet voice technologies that seem to have fallen by the wayside. Last time we discussed voice over frame relay, so this time we’re moving on to voice ...

Thanks to the higher speeds possible using a technology called vectoring, copper networks are still a viable option to cable and fiber, Deutsche Telekom says. Rolling out fiber-to-the-home to all ...