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Word: fibertrak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1985-1985
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...locomotives. Southern Pacific, which developed the Sprint long-distance telephone service and sold it in 1983 to GTE for $740 million, is currently developing another advanced communications system. In a venture with Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern, the company is creating a coast-to-coast fiber-optics network called Fibertrak that can simultaneously carry 300,000 voice and computer-data transmissions and will be laid down next to the railroad tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railyard Rumbles | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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