In 1858, a telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.

CNN: Friday,

Louis the oomph to cross the Atlantic, introduced the first cable modems nearly two decades ago but pulled them when they proved to be ahead of their time.

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Global Crossing founder Gary Winnick, laid underwater fiber optic cable network across the Atlantic Ocean and became a billionaire in 1.5 years.

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Campaign group A Human Right, which is supported by the UN, has called on the Department for International Development to contribute a substantial amount to the engineering costs of connecting the island to the South Atlantic Express, a new superfast fibre optic cable being laid by South African firm eFive.

BBC: Technology

Neither company's effort has done anything to shake the shared stronghold of Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific Atlantic (nyse: SFA - news - people ) on the cable set-top box industry.

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This idea has traveled the establishment world, not just the graying lady and the highly exclusive (if you go by audience size) cable network, but also such liberal and establishment venues as the New Republic and the Atlantic.

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