Sources in media reports say Qwest (nyse: Q - news - people ) would neither admit nor deny committing fraud to settle claims that it swapped fiber optic capacity with other carriers and improperly booked the transactions to inflate revenues.
The bubble years saw an immense build-out of fiber-optic capacity as telcos new and old--Worldcom!
The underlying price structure of long-distance telephony has dropped 80% in two years, thanks to a bonanza in fiber-optic capacity.
He began buying up local phone companies and excess fiber-optic capacity in such places as Spokane, Washington, mostly so he could study the local phone business.
Limitless fiber-optic capacity will slash transmission costs over the world's networks.
The documents also indicate that Winnick knew about fiber-optic capacity swap transactions that helped the company appear to be gaining revenue, deals that in fact had no economic value, investigators say.
Indeed, we're beginning to believe that the market may just be catching up to our understanding that investment in fiber-optic capacity would once again begin to grow as longer-haul networks reached uncomfortable capacity constraints and telecom carriers began to invest more seriously in their long-term viability.
This technological advancement has helped Futong increase its production capacity of optic fiber preforms to 600 tons a year.
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From 2002 to late 2007 the capacity utilization of undersea fiber optic cable barely moved.
Just as we experienced with the fiber-optic cable build-out, there was soon too much railroad capacity, and freight prices fell.
When fiber optic replaces the microwave network in two to three years, Wharf will have the capacity to bring 45 channels to more than 1.1 million homes.
Optical technologies have revolutionized long-distance communications, replacing low-capacity copper wiring that carries electrical signals with combinations of lasers and fiber-optic cabling that send information over many high-speed channels.
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