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...other handicaps could stall their drive toward two-way TV. Although they lead in the race to lay fiber-optic cable, much of it was originally installed to carry a high volume of phone traffic into cities and therefore does not connect to individual homes; instead, the fiber-optic trunk lines branch into twisted pairs of copper wires, which carry far less information directly to the customer. That means the companies must either replace this so-called last mile with fiber-optic cable or find a way to compress the data through the thin copper openings...
...trunk will be extended beyond Quincy Squareup Quincy St. to Kirkland St. and Memorial Hall,Culver said...
...work on Mt. Auburn St. involves theinstallation of a line from the trunk down toDunster...
...necessary to close DeWolfe St. for thework, Culver said, because the main trunk isunusually large--the pipe has an interior diameterof six feet and an exterior diameter of eightfeet...
...does take up most of the street to buildit," the coordinator said of the main trunk...