Today, a digital cellular telephone is sufficient for most situations.

The company will sell a digital telephone for $179.99 with a contract.

The survey, however, does not include the several million customers who buy service from cable providers, which market their products as "digital telephone."

Later this year it is expected to introduce a line of digital cellular telephones.

But digital cellular telephones, introduced in many markets with great fanfare over the last year, are not any of those.

Personal communications is an innovative technology that would use radio waves to provide wireless, digital telephone and information services.

And during the 1990's, the advent of a digital telephone network will boost data communications speeds significantly.

But many analysts believe that customers will resist the expense of digital telephones.

Some modem manufacturers are already betting on digital telephones.

Sharp will also distribute Alcatel equipment for digital cellular telephones.