For half the price the radios fed tower data to a central point with a direct connection to a telco's fiber.

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Easynet's network coverage extends to 250 major cities and its U.K. broadband IP network--consisting of 4, 450 kilometers of fiber--gives it direct access to 4.4 million homes and 850, 000 businesses in the U.K. More ...

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Once Verizon has built up its fiber-optic network enough to offer direct connections to homes, the company plans to start selling television and movies over those same pipes.

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And the move to installing fiber and manufacturing its own hardware mean that the company is diversifying its business model to include more direct payments from users and not be wholly dependent on advertising revenues to fund all of this infrastructure.

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