Archive for December, 2005

PTI-VERIZON saga sets milestone with takeover

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia … it began providing services between Saipan, Tinian and Rota over the fiber optic cables … For if evicted from its premises, there will be massive disruption of …

JUDITH Gap wind turbines go online

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Billings Gazette - MT, USA … But the complex system, linked via a network of fiber optics, funnels into a computer program that shows up on a computer monitor in California and another in …

AT&T rolls out Lodi plan

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA … Koenig said the project is designed to deliver services to homes in two ways: fiber-to-the-premises, with direct connections to new homes and apartments, and …

SEVERED Fiber Optic Cable Cuts Vian’s Phone Service

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Sequoyah County Times - Sallisaw,OK,USA About 2,300 phone lines in Vian were cut off from their long-distance telephone service for about four and a half hours Thursday after a fiber optic cable line …

OFC/NFOEC 2006 Builds On Past Success

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Photonics.com - Pittsfield,MA,USA … It recognizes an individual who has made “pioneering, highly significant or continuing technical or leadership contributions to fiber optics technology.”. …

HICKORYTECH Completes Enventis Telecom Acquisition

Friday, December 30th, 2005

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA … interconnects with local, regional, national, and global carriers — Local Fiber Access — constructing fiber access to customer premises — Private Line — T1 …

VERIZON’S FiOS TV to Carry Sinclair Stations

Friday, December 30th, 2005

TVTechnology - USA on Verizon’s FiOS telco TV service. Verizon plans to launch its FiOS-TV service in both of these markets to compete with cable and satellite program providers. …

MOST Bright House customers will pay the same rates in 2006

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Bradenton Herald - FL, United States … Consumers in Manatee County will have more choices in the near future. This month Verizon rolled out its FiOS system in Temple Terrace using optical cable. …

COURT backs NKC fiber-optic system

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Kansas City Star - MO,USA By DAN MARGOLIES. Time Warner has lost its bid to stop North Kansas City from building its own fiber-optic system. A federal appeals …

MULTIMODE Fiber Thinks It’s Single-Mode

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Photonics.com - Pittsfield,MA,USA In an unusual intersection of fiber optics and astronomy, a collaboration of British and Australian scientists has yielded a technique that they believe could …