The researchers have found that investors tend to herd particularly around high-tech investments that have the potential to revolutionize the entire market and promise a big upside technologies like fiber optics, internet-related infrastructure, and so forth.
Conversely, infrastructure is going to become increasingly important as LTE and constrained fiber-optics internet connections won't cut it anymore.
Analysts said the spinoff would allow Lucent to focus on its fast-growing fiber optics and Internet equipment businesses.
Instead of lagging the world in this critical area, we would quickly lead it, just as we did with microchips, fiber optics and until recently the Internet.
Relying totally on fiber optics to transmit data, an optical Internet will offer enough bandwidth to deliver far more compelling online entertainment, education and e-commerce; there will even be sufficient bandwidth to hold video conferences in which the slightest changes in facial expression-and perhaps even smell and touch-are immediately apparent.
He said Verizon's $20 billion effort to install fiber optics for television and Internet service promised growth for both the company and the unions.
This "inferior position," he said, means that "the real initial impulse for developing fiber optics, telecommunications and the Internet will have to come from the equity markets up north".
If you are an entrepreneur in semiconductor design, biotech, fiber optics and the mobile internet, you may be in luck.
We've got the Internet and fiber optics and God knows what else breaking down the barriers dividing people and places, and what do you guys want to do?
Customers now must weigh the differences between fiber optics and cable and consider Internet connection speeds and the number of high-definition channels they want as more companies enter the market.
Be on the lookout for increased spending on fiber optics, routers and other important Internet infrastructure.
