Google owns more dark fiber in the United States than any other company.

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He also said that we need to protect the type of entrepreneurship that is built into the very fiber of the United States.

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However, look for Google to begin to play an important role in Internet capacity since it owns a lot of unused fiber in the United States.

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The company installed 63 additional Private IP edge routers for a total of 915 edge routers in 245 sites throughout 63 countries, activated more than 1, 500 kilometers (932 miles) of ultra-long-haul network across the southern part of the United Kingdom, and completed a joint fiber build in Singapore, which almost doubles the coverage of the Singapore fiber-optic network.

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Due to what Gilder calls "regulatory sclerosis, " demand for last-mile broadband fiber is going unmet in the United States.

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If accurate, these leaks beg an important question: Would the United States be able to ascertain and judge such actions if Soviet communications were transmitted by secure fiber-optic lines?

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