POWELL, WYOMING – Can you imagine getting fiber optic connected to your home for free? Fiber can deliver download and upload speeds hundreds of times faster than most high speed internet services, and every home in...
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French Paper Kills Verizon’s (VZ) $24 Billion FiOS Project
We hope Verizon (VZ) boss Ivan Seidenberg doesn’t get his business news from French newspaper Le Monde, or he might have had a small stroke this week. In an article...
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Demand for Bandwidth Driving Global Deployment of Fiber Optic Networks
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Assessment of Broadband Access Networks, finds that fiber optic networks, despite their high capital expenditure, are looking as an increasingly viable long-term solution for...
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Prysmian releases new bend-insensitive fiber
Following the launch last year of CasaLight, an ITU G657-compliant bend insensitive fibre, Prysmian has introduced CasaLight Plus, an enhanced performance design that further reduces the minimum working bend radius to exceed the recommendations of G657.B....
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Qwest Introduces 20 Megabit per Second DSL
Qwest Communications International, Inc. launched two super high-speed fiber-optic Internet services including Qwest Connect Quantum which provides DSL connection speeds up to 20 Mbps. This premium service is being introduced to residential...
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Fiber optic inventor visits Kent Theodore Roosevelt physics students learn from scientist
Students in teacher David Killius’ fourth period advanced physics class at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent were visited Friday by a man who has already changed...Read more »
Verizon quarter profit up by 9.8 percent on robust fiber-optic services
Verizon Communications Inc. said its first quarter profit climbed by 9.8 percent due to strong growth in sales of domestic fiber-optic services. The company’s net profit rose...
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Internet Obsolete… New Fiber Optic “Grid” 10,000 Times Faster
The birthplace of the Web, Cern, which is based near Geneva, is now busy working on “the grid” that boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical Broadband connection,...Read more »
USA ranks #4 in W.E.F. Network Readiness Index
The United States is ranked 7th worldwide in a Networked Readiness Index in a new report issued by the World Economic Forum. The index is based on a variety of economic and political as well...
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Fiber-to-the-Home Council Statistics Show Verizon Sets The Pace In Installing Next-Generation Services
By a wide margin, Verizon continues to be the most powerful force in the re-wiring of North America, leading other telephone companies, local exchange companies, towns, developers...
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