And by tearing out the copper lines in a Fios neighborhood, Verizon's locked up the customer for good.
But even the landlines need less human attention because Verizon is rapidly replacing old-fashioned copper lines with lower-maintenance, fiber-optic cables.
Unfortunately, with traditional copper lines, once you cross six or seven miles, they drop off to half a meg, if you can even get that.
HiPerforma is made with a solar cell technology called Pluto, which creates ultra thin copper lines that act as highways to transport the electricity produced by the cells.
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Because it has such little infrastructure in place--dirt roads, old copper telephone lines, etc.
The content zooms and clatters over an array of archaic and futuristic gear, from aging copper phone lines to light-bending optical switches.
As a 23-year-old engineer at Bell Laboratories in 1979, I came to believe that high-speed, high-volume transmissions were feasible via copper telephone lines.
Butthat short leg from the long-distance network to homes and offices is a contorted mish-mash of copper phone lines, TV cables, fiber and wireless systems.
Butthat short leg from the long-distance network to homes and offices is a contorted mishmash of copper phone lines, TV cables, fiber and wireless systems.
It is thought thieves who stole lead from church roofs and copper from rail lines have moved on to a new target.
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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Look at the old mandates that require the firms we used to call telephone companies to maintain their copper-wire phone lines and voice-call switching infrastructure.
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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.
They are building copper mines in the Congo, high-speed rail lines in Brazil and apartment complexes in Saudi Arabia.
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