Modems Quotes

Last-mile services to customers must be integrated, providing both voice and data, because the backbone is integrated, ... Modems and ISDN are too slow, and cable and wireless aren`t there yet. DSL is the only complete solution for the last mile.

Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.