If the latter seems incongruous in a car-dominated nation, it is largely because, shrewdly, he laid optic-fibre networks beneath the tracks he owned to create the giant telecommunications network, Qwest.
In all nearly 40 miles of fibre optic cables will be used for the live show.
The new fibre optic broadband would make internet speeds 10 to 40 times faster than normal.
The two MCTS sites, which are nearly 200 miles apart, are connected by a fibre optic link.
The company was working with telecom firm JT on the States-backed roll-out, connecting homes to fibre optic cables.
Other, mainly rural, areas will receive public funds to build a "digital hub" with a fibre optic internet connection.
About 100 staff working on the roll-out of fibre optic broadband in Jersey may lose their jobs, their employer said.
They got more money for the copper cable they dug up than it cost them to put in fibre optic.
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And we can use fibre optic cable for the telephone cables and thus have more copper to use for the water pipes.
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Internet services have been boosted by an international fibre optic cable connection.
The second is that BT has already done this in fact, when they laid the first sets of fibre optic backbone.
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Linked into the city's new fibre optic network, WiBro promises to deliver broadband mobile data speeds far in excess of most western 3G services.
The campuses of eight universities, one in each UEMOA country, will be equipped with fibre optic equipment and at least 200 computers with high-speed connection.
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.
In recent years broadband speeds in Fermanagh have improved dramatically, even in rural areas as long as you are lucky enough to live near a superfast fibre optic broadband cabinet.
Nereus, on the other hand, uses rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, similar to those used in laptop computers, for power and a single hairs-width fibre optic cables - borrowed from Torpedoes - for control and telemetry.
Now that's a good thing for the country in the future, but you need to employ people to dig up the roads and actually put in the new cabling and the fibre optic cables.
Colum Courtney the managing director of Hybrid Mail Solutions, a new bulk mail service based in Lisnaskea, said his business has a great fibre optic broadband connection which allows it to be strategically placed on the border.
Since the government first announced its plans for the national internet in 2005, it has clearly invested a lot in state of the art technology infrastructure - fibre optic cables, and new data centres to enable many more sites to be hosted inside the country rather than abroad.
Campaign group A Human Right, which is supported by the UN, has called on the Department for International Development to contribute a substantial amount to the engineering costs of connecting the island to the South Atlantic Express, a new superfast fibre optic cable being laid by South African firm eFive.
MCI, WorldCom has a fibre-optic cable in America, global satellite coverage, and a mass of undersea fibre.
Both Nexans and Pirelli also do research into fibre-optic technologies, the former to plug a gap caused by Alcatel's decision to keep its fibre business when it spun off its other cable operations to Nexans.
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Work on the fibre-optic underground cable network will start immediately and be 90% complete by 2014.
Who was there to caution against the mad stampede of telecoms firms into fibre-optic cable?
Although Enron made markets in it, fibre-optic backbone is not really a fungible commodity.
One, says Mr Bane, is if the fibre-optic capacity glut turns into a supply shortage.
The upshot was a huge increase in the number of competitors and of overlapping fibre-optic networks.
Similar calculations would probably apply to the investment in fibre-optic cables better suited to rising demand.
The name reflects the fact that radio links are used to connect homes to a traditional fibre-optic backbone.
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