In between he spoke of helping one-industry towns, raising pension benefits, enticing migr and foreign scientists, building housing for veterans, constructing roads, central bank lending,elimination of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, fighting drug addiction, encouraging sports, laying fiber optic cables, bringing the Internet to faraway regions and GPS systems to automobiles.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

For half the price the radios fed tower data to a central point with a direct connection to a telco's fiber.

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Already El Paso owns the second-largest fiber network in Houston, with connections to every central office switch operated by regional phone giant SBC Communications.

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Shared fiber : The government constructs (or authorizes a private company to construct) a network of fiber optic cables that run from each home in the municipality to a central peering point.

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