Word: optic
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...term before there's rate relief from competition." Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, the ranking Democrat on the House Telecommunications Subcommittee concurs: "Consumers will wind up tipped upside down, with money shaken out of their pockets to subsidize the deregulatory dreams of the largest monopolies in the country. The fiber-optic barons are in control...
...theory, as a pattern of connections among neurons, the nerve cells that serve as the brain's basic building blocks. When information-the image of a new acquaintance's face, for example-enters the brain, it arrives in the form of electric impulses streaming from the retina, up the optic nerve and into the cerebral cortex, the so-called gray matter that houses the brain's higher functions...
...structure will allow HSDN to support core services like maintenance of fiber optic facilities, and diagnostic and repair services, but other services will become optional and will be administered on a fee-for-service basis...
Each side will contribute $200 million to a global joint venture in which programming and electronic information produced by News Corp. will be distributed to businesses and consumers in digital form through MCI's vast web of fiber-optic cable. But here too Murdoch may not have to ante up cash, just "content.'' Low risk but high potential profit for him-that's typical of the entire deal. If MCI eventually invests the full $2 billion, it will own 13.5% of News Corp. But the terms of the deal require MCI to vote its shares in the same proportion...
...certainly not the last. Tired of waiting for cable and telephone companies to build their fiber-optic interactive-TV networks--a multibillion-dollar effort that could take a decade or more to complete--computer enthusiasts are making do with what they have today: a computer network that runs largely over telephone lines. Using jerry-built software tools and whatever shows they have at hand, they are busily reinventing the old media on the new medium, offering up music, pictures, video clips and now a comedy series. Much of the new material is drawn from the golden days of radio...