fibre-optic

Market forces have helped the internet expand mightily as you say - especially in building the fibre-optic networks that actually carry the data, but the point it overestimated.

From Galbraith to Spitzer, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Doku added: "While many areas of the country are already benefiting from the considerable investment into super-fast fibre-optic networks, our research highlights the plight of households at the other end of the spectrum, struggling with download speeds so poor that in some cases it can hardly be considered a broadband service at all."

Broadband map reveals Suffolk town as the slowest in Britain 2011

Virgin Media examined stringing fibre-optic cable along pylons; a Penrith company proposed sending data down electricity lines; and a Carlisle company offered its cable network.

How Cumbria's village halls are pioneering a hi-tech revolution | Rory Stewart 2011

The calcium in Gordon's bones transmogrified into an allotropic titanium-plutonium alloy; his nervous system mutated into a broadband fibre-optic TCP/IP network; his muscles became a carbonfibre-reinforced weave; his organs became high-capacity chemical processing plants.

The creation of Brown-man Gordon McCabe 2009

• The new generation of broadband, delivered by fibre-optic cables, is now available for 57% of UK households – though just 500,000 have adopted it.

Facebook and Twitter fuel iPhone and BlackBerry addiction, says Ofcom 2011

How did it feel to be wearing kit with fibre-optic equipment in it?

Tony McCoy | Small Talk 2011

Complaints to Ofcom about the cost of duct and pole access, and to the VOA about the disparity in charging between BT and other fibre-optic providers, have so far produced no change.

Row over BT access prices threatens Vaizey's plan for superfast broadband 2011

Fujitsu proposes putting its own cabling in a number of communities, using the ducts and poles presently controlled by the BT Openreach division to run the fibre-optic cable which would provide the high-speed connections.

Row over BT access prices threatens Vaizey's plan for superfast broadband 2011

Superfast broadband delivered by fibre-optic cable has the potential to dramatically transform peoples' lives: studies in South Korea have shown that symmetrical broadband, where upload and download speeds are almost equal, lead to the creation of more content by everyone - compared to "asymmetrical" systems such as those found almost everywhere in the UK and US which rely on copper wire.

Row over BT access prices threatens Vaizey's plan for superfast broadband 2011

The calcium in Gordon's bones transmogrified into an allotropic titanium-plutonium alloy; his nervous system mutated into a broadband fibre-optic TCP/IP network; his muscles became a carbonfibre-reinforced weave; his organs became high-capacity chemical processing plants.

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