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...development of compressed fiber-optic wiring will give cable companies the potential to supply hundreds of programming channels in the home as well as interactive communications, movies and musical releases on demand, and digital information services...
With the fading of the technological differences and regulatory barriers that keep them apart, cable-TV and phone systems are trying to position themselves -- legally and financially -- to provide the expensive fiber-optic networks that can handle communications, entertainment and digital information of the 21st century. Some Bush Administration officials and other proponents of deregulation hope the result will be competing pipelines that can carry voice, video and digital information into homes, so that consumers will have more choices. More likely -- and probably more economically efficient -- only one company will end up providing the fiber-optic pipeline in each local...
...phone industry's grand scheme to be the dominant conduit for every conceivable communications service -- from faxes, newspapers and video conferencing to home shopping, radio broadcasts and TV. At least seven phone companies, including Pacific Telesis, Ameritech and BellSouth, are developing the ISDN software for special fiber-optic wires that can carry such multimedia information. But the companies need state regulatory approval for telephone-rate increases to cover installation costs. Public service commissions, however, have been reluctant to let companies raise phone bills to recover the investment...
Researchers have managed to double the speed of fiber optic transmission every 18 months since its invention, for instance. But this has not translated into error-free operation, Kung says...
...Savoie , General Council and co-president of the Games with Killy. And so they did. In the past five years the French state spent $1.1 billion on new roads and high- speed trains into the region and millions more on four sewer plants, three hospitals, 1,240 miles of optic fibers and spotlighting for 20 churches and castles. Albertville, with its 18,200 inhabitants, boasts a grandiose new theater and arcaded plaza (christened Place de l'Europe) and fresh-laid cobblestones, plus a 23-ft.-high slab of granite posing as avant-garde sculpture. "We're no longer...