And they just never are going to run the copper cable out to everyone.
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And, behold, they found clippers, gloves, a torch and 24kg (53lbs) of copper cable.
In Brazil, through copper cable-maker Madeco, they own a majority of fiber optics and copper cable maker Ficap.
Meanwhile, a large drum of copper cable was stolen after a lorry driver was ambushed in Kent on Thursday.
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Kent Police said the theft of the copper cable was down to its "current high value and attractiveness to thieves".
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They got more money for the copper cable they dug up than it cost them to put in fibre optic.
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Officers said commercial and religious buildings had been frequent targets, but added there had also been thefts of copper cable from electricity lines.
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Sussex Police are working alongside Kent Police in a campaign to raise awareness of the increase in the theft of telephone copper cable.
The company claims to have 75 million miles of copper cable which people are always trying to steal for the copper scrap value.
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More than 80 homes have been left without phone and internet connection in a North Lincolnshire village after thieves stole 1, 400m of copper cable.
Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.
It's also providing copper cable networks for the "last mile" of installed wire from central switches to homes and businesses, and products that help increase bandwidth, maintain signal integrity and optimize wavelength.
Silicon photonics is a new approach to using light (photons) to move huge amounts of data at very high speeds with extremely low power over a thin optical fiber rather than using electrical signals over a copper cable.
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And compared with last year, when the cost to install wireless Ethernet was 10 to 15 percent more than installing a wired system using Category 5 copper cable, wired and wireless cost about the same today, said Murphy.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will significantly reduce overall EMP vulnerability.
Continuing efforts to replace copper communications cable with fiber optic cable will reduce overall EMP vulnerability significantly.
Basic copper and cable internet access cannot run faster than about 5 megabits per second, which is just about fast enough to watch something on YouTube or for a video chat over Skype.
Last month some rather more organised criminals lifted 2km of copper wire and cable between Hanover and Hamburg.
Meanwhile, data for May has shown copper and wire cable shipments rising 18% year on year to the construction sector, although down 21% to the auto sector.
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There are four mediums to think about: copper, air, cable and fiber--listed here from slowest to fastest.
It costs less than ISDN or T1 lines, it flows over existing copper wire and, unlike cable, its bandwidth doesn't diminish as more neighbors hop onboard.
To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable's copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a bluefin tuna.
Such copper pipe now connects telephones, cable television, computers and all manner of other information processing gear.
So it happens every now and again that folks scavenging for copper end up cutting through fiberoptic cable, which can shut down phone and data traffic for a limited area.
They claim to have a magic box, a variation of a telecommunications switch that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile, that final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
They claim that they will have a magic box of telecommunications hardware and software that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile: the final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
Likewise, traditional local and long-distance telephone service over the copper network is being displaced by better technology from cable and fiber.
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And we can use fibre optic cable for the telephone cables and thus have more copper to use for the water pipes.
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Fiber-optic cable can carry many times as much data as traditional copper wiring.
They also come with a new specially designed carrying case that features cable management, as well as OFC (oxygen free copper) cables for enhanced sonic performance.
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