Most services will probably offer 14.4-kilobit access by the end of the year, but the timetable for 28.8 is unclear.

The goal, the company said, is for all laundry detergent suppliers to offer similar packaging by the end of the year.

Kodak expects 90 percent of American photo labs to offer the service by the end of this year.

The company hopes to offer its mix of movies on demand, home shopping and video games to 4,000 customers by the end of the year.

A commitment to offer high-speed Internet service to all of its local phone customers by the end of next year.

The site says it expects to offer more than 1,000 songs by the end of the year.

Verizon plans to spend $3 billion to offer fiber service to three million homes nationally by the end of 2005.

The two services said they intended to offer for-pay services for license by the end of the summer.

The company hopes to offer a commercial video service by the end of 1995.

Pacific Telesis has begun a $16 billion program to upgrade its network, and also plans to offer video programming by the end of the year.