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...Fiber-optic wiring that provides a virtually limitless transmission pipeline...
Clinton, further, is sticking to his promise to pour an additional $220 billion into the economy over four years in spending for job training, education and infrastructure projects (roads, bridges, high-speed railroads, fiber-optic communications), which only makes it harder to attain his goal of cutting the fiscal 1997 deficit $145 billion below current projections (that would represent a 38%, rather than a 50%, cut). But if he is to retain any credibility, he must produce a concrete program for doing it, and soon...
...MANY WAYS CAN YOU TAKE IN THE TUBE? Between broadcast television, cable TV, fiber-optic cable, digital compressed cable and variously sized satellite dishes, there may soon be as many delivery systems as there are channels to choose from. Now the FCC has added yet another wrinkle to videotic variety, tentatively approving a nationwide television-transmission system much like the one used to send and receive cellular phone calls...
...early 1994. TCI's announcement represents the first major consumer application of compressed-digital TV, which can squeeze 10 channels in the space currently occupied by only one. Not to be outdone, officials at rival Time Warner point out that by applying the same technology to the fiber-optic lines in its Quantum system, the 150 channels it delivers to customers in Queens, New York, could multiply...
...Clinton Administration will go along with, and even accelerate, this change in emphasis. The President-elect has repeatedly pledged to direct government support to such practical fields as fiber-optic communications, computer networking, biotechnology, robotics and magnetic-levitation train transportation. Vice President Gore will probably be in charge of coordinating federal efforts to spur technology...