But their natural enmity was overcome by envy: They had all seen Williams Communications win Wall Street cachet by parlaying its own rights-of-way into first one fiber web (Wiltel) and then a second.

FORBES: Other People's Money

But their natural enmity was overcome by envy: They all had seen rival Williams Communications win Wall Street cachet by parlaying its own rights-of-way into first one fiber web (Wiltel) and then a second.

FORBES: Other People's Money

But their natural enmity was overcome by envy: They all had seen rival Williams Communications (nyse: WCG - news - people) win Wall Street cachet by parlaying its own rights-of-way into first one fiber Web (Wiltel) and then a second.

FORBES: Other People's Money

The second measure to bring infotech to the unwired masses is to just do it: give IT to them -- computers, web-phones, satellite and fiber-optic links, the works -- at low cost, if not for free.

CNN: Just do it

Apply the relevant laws and you'll have a pretty accurate idea where microprocessor performance, PC usage, display technology, fiber optic bandwidth, wireless PDAs, games, the Web, etc. will be two, three and five years from now.

FORBES: Opportunity Knocking

For communicators, however, the impact may prove to be still more profound as Google Fiber speeds the migration of video and broadcast programming onto the web.

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Video, mobile data, Web services and cloud storage are soaking up the once-forlorn fiber very quickly.

FORBES: The Data Explosion and the Networked Enterprise

Izzo credits the "spider web" like network of copper wire, paired with coaxial and fiber crossing underneath city streets, for the network's durability.

CNN: Is the pay phone making a comeback?

Uunet alone zaps perhaps half of the world's Net bits, and 30% of all Web sites transmit their pages on Uunet's 300, 000 miles of fiber.

FORBES: Backbone Bullies