And it's using the time bought by that strategy to build a fiber-to-the-customer business called FiOS.

并且他正在用时间来买他的战略FiOS——光纤到客户业务。

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With high-count fiber cable gradually used in access network to achieve FTTH, Slotted core cable has been accepted by the customer because of easy mid-span access.

随着接入网中逐渐使用大芯数光缆以实现光纤到户（FTTH），由于容易中途分支，骨架式带状光缆逐步被用户接受；

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Verizon's FiOS is literally at the top of its industry in customer satisfaction and it isn't just the fiber running to the outside of its customer's houses that makes it so great -- although no one is saying FiOS is perfect -- it is the total package including how FiOS doesn't mark any content as Copy Once or marry CableCARDs to 3rd party hardware.

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At Verizon, "We are fiber all the way from the network to the customer, " says spokesman Eric Rabe.

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Rather than having to dig up the streets to lay cable or fiber, WinStar plugs in an antenna on a customer's rooftop and bingo, you have a dial tone.

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