Firstly, it reduces the cost of infrastructure when compared with the traditional trenching and laying of cable, which in the current economic environment is unsurprisingly popular.

首先，相较于传统的挖掘和铺设线缆，它减少了基础设施的成本，这在目前的经济环境中无疑是非常流行的。

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Francois Couder, 43, began working at the age of 17 laying underground cable in hazardous conditions for state-run France Telecom. The company has since been privatized.

43岁，从17岁时就开始为国有的法国电信工作：在比较危险的环境中铺设地下电缆。该公司现在已被私有化。

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Francois Couder, 43, began working at the age of 17 laying underground cable in hazardous conditions for state-run France Telecom.

Francois Couder, 43岁，从17岁时就开始为国有的法国电信工作：在比较危险的环境中铺设地下电缆。

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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

Dozens of companies are laying fiber-optic cable around the world, leading some to talk of a looming bandwidth glut.

FORBES: A fiber niche is nice

Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.

NPR: Broadening the Reach of Broadband