Detroit Edison, a local power company, is laying 400 metres of these cables.

ECONOMIST: Superconducting power cables

The Welsh Government say that local authorities have asked them to take a lead in laying out how they see collaboration taking place.

BBC: Grasping the nettle of complexity

Later, Mr McCourt began laying his own telephone cables, building small local networks for commercial customers that allowed them to bypass Bell Atlantic's Boston predecessor.

ECONOMIST: Stand and deliver