A telecommunications carrier shall be treated as a common carrier under this Act only to the extent that it is engaged in providing telecommunications services. All TV sets sold in America will include the V-Chip starting January 1, 1998. A complementary ratings system of television programing debuted in January 1997. A binary digit, the smallest unit of information in a computer, represented as a 0 or 1. One character is typically seven or eight bits in length.
Speed takes on particular importance when using on-line Internet services.
A collection of bits used to form a character or some other information. Digital switches operate faster, more effectively, and with greater flexibility than analog switched. Messages are composed on computers and then sent over a network to other network users in electronic form. Fiber offers greater transmission capacity with less interference than metal cables. An Internet tool developed at the University of Minnesota that offers a simple method of perusing and retrieving information on the Internet.