Morrison teaches technology classes at Wayne State University and often works from his home. Computers using a digital subscriber line must have an ethernet card, which the installer can provide. MediaNet also must install a splitting device in the computer user's phone line to separate voice signals from electronic data. Gibbons expects the technology will be most useful to businesses because it will cost less than a T-1 line, a fast Internet connection now used by many companies. Although about 10 other Michigan companies offer the connection, MediaNet is the only provider serving Livingston County.
Users can talk on the phone while connected to the Internet without needing a second line.