• Who was there to caution against the mad stampede of telecoms firms into fibre-optic cable?

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • MCI, WorldCom has a fibre-optic cable in America, global satellite coverage, and a mass of undersea fibre.

    ECONOMIST: WorldCom tucks in��again

  • Eric Bender, who is about to submit plans for the server farm, will not have to lay much fibre-optic cable.

    ECONOMIST: Business in America

  • The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged the fibre-optic cable on 28 March.

    FORBES: Elderly Woman Shuts Down Armenian Internet

  • The business of laying fibre-optic cable, both terrestrially and under the sea, used to be the preserve of incumbent telecoms operators sharing the burden of capital-intensive projects.

    ECONOMIST: Booms and busts

  • Daniel Gross, a journalist, wrote a book claiming that bubbles were good for economies since they leave behind infrastructure (canals, railways, fibre-optic cable) that can last for generations.

    ECONOMIST: Sometimes it helps if investors are gloomy

  • He listed numerous violations of security policies in recent years, including by one (unnamed) news group that installed a fibre-optic cable despite having been told repeatedly this was not allowed.

    ECONOMIST: Financial data

  • Another possibility, much discussed within the Treasury, would be a government-sponsored effort to encourage the private sector to lay state-of-the art fibre-optic cable in one or more of Britain's major cities.

    BBC: UK growth - anything to be done?

  • But Mr McCourt's main fascination is with fibre-optic cable.

    ECONOMIST: Stand and deliver

  • It has moved fastest in Mumbai, where it has laid 150 km of fibre-optic cable and is now offering speedy Internet access to the first of its 1.9m customers in the city.

    ECONOMIST: The wiring of India

  • Since 1997, Telkom has cut the time it takes to repair faults, reduced international charges by 50% in real terms, and started laying a massive undersea fibre-optic cable to carry data between Africa and Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Telkom, the state telecoms monopoly, still has much to do

  • Think along the lines of a special forces unit going deep into enemy territory with embedded geeks in the team, to dig up fibre-optic cable to be able to reach the systems that were supposed to be unreachable.

    BBC: Viewpoint: Stuxnet shifts the cyber arms race up a gear

  • The looming capacity crunch of the 1990s was averted not just by slower demand growth, but also dramatically increased supply, in the form of big investments in fibre-optic cable and technical tricks that squeezed more data through the pipes.

    ECONOMIST: Saturated mobile networks

  • Many foreign firms, of course, are doing well in China, especially at the two extremes of the value chain: things like luxury goods, fibre-optic cable and big aeroplanes on the one hand, and oil, ores and recyclable waste on the other.

    ECONOMIST: Selling foreign goods in China

  • Later that year, a Wall Street contact arranged a meeting with Philip Anschutz, a reclusive tycoon who had sold Southern Pacific Railroad to Union Pacific and, in a stroke of genius, kept the right to lay fibre-optic cable along the tracks of both railways.

    ECONOMIST: Qwandary

  • Yet increasingly, relatively humdrum, time-consuming tasks, which would once have been foisted on ambitious but inexperienced young recruits, working long hours to earn their spurs in Wall Street or the City of London, are, thanks to the miracle of fibre-optic cable, foisted on their lower-paid Indian counterparts.

    ECONOMIST: India aims to become the back office for the world's banks

  • Work on the fibre-optic underground cable network will start immediately and be 90% complete by 2014.

    BBC: North Yorkshire's ?70m broadband project starts

  • In many countries telecoms operators have been converting some of their last-mile connections to high-speed fibre-optic links, though cable networks and telephone wires still account for most last-mile connections.

    ECONOMIST: Internet overload

  • Pirelli says it will now concentrate on cable technology and fibre-optic components, which together accounted for 19% of its sales last year, and also on telecoms services.

    ECONOMIST: A risky move into telecoms has upset a lot of shareholders

  • The huge machine includes 12, 000 modified versions of the processor originally designed for the Sony Playstation 3, and 92km (57 miles) of fibre optic cable, housed in 288 refrigerator-sized cases.

    BBC: 'Petaflop' supercomputer is decommissioned

  • NTL, recognised in the industry as the most innovative company, also has the most comprehensive infrastructure cable, mobile telephony, a national fibre-optic network and a television broadcast network.

    ECONOMIST: Hot wires

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