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WorldCom's muscular stock has become Ebbers' checkbook. He paid $2.5 billion in 1995 for a company called WilTel and its 11,000-mile network of fiber-optic cable, making WorldCom the fourth largest U.S. long-distance carrier. But he soon found himself tossing and turning at night because he had little in the way of local service to sell. So while driving to work on Aug. 12, 1996, he dialed up James Crowe, chairman of a local-service provider called MFS Communications, to propose a deal. By the time Ebbers hung up, he was ready to shell...
...chip and supplying the latest version of software, we will enhance both TV and the PC," says Roberts. To follow its own growth trajectory, Microsoft needs broadband to transmit its multimedia cornucopia of online news, entertainment and shopping. MS money now allows Comcast to accelerate construction of fiber-optic cable to expand high-speed Internet access, develop programs with Microsoft and reduce its debt...
...Most have tried to break into local-phone markets on the cheap by negotiating with the incumbent to lease and resell service on its lines. Bryan's company decided to exploit a provision in the act that allows utilities to offer phone service. Many of them have modern fiber-optic communications networks to monitor plants and transmission over wide areas, and Bryan offered to use their extra capacity for phone service. Last year, for example, ICG signed a deal with Southern California Edison and won rights to use the utility's 1,260 miles of lines and switches spanning...
...from his extensive writings, a few of the natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy to admire for his achievements as he was difficult to like for his aggressive and vainglorious personality...
...have seen how popular the net kiosks around campus have been. Why not have similar stations on street corners and at supermarkets? Every American who wants one should be assigned a lifetime e-mail address. Take steps to promote the installation of fiber optic cable nationwide or enact a tax break for personal computer purchases...