In the last article about broadband I supplied a list of the "video dialtone" deployments that were filed at the FCC by what are now AT&T, Verizon and Centurylink to upgrade the utility copper networks and replace these wires with fiber optics wires -- which never happened.
In the main hall a chandelier sparkles with dozens of ice shards illuminated in the cool light of fiber optics, with wires magically disappearing into snow walls.
The 'massive deployment of fiber optics' now appears to be the fiber optic wires-to-the-cell-towers and not residential broadband, and the losses are, in part, from the wireless company not paying construction costs and other expenses, thus lowering the revenue to the state utility, while adding hundreds of millions of dollars, per state, per year for the wireless network expenses.
So, the phone companies are now upgrading the networks to fiber optics for their wireless companies and while the wires may pass your home or office--you may not/can't get the fiber optic wires for fiber-to-the-home or for your office.
Today's micro-fiber cloud-light electric covers distribute even, gentle heat via a network of fiber optics, not heavy wires.
Walker calls it a "demented trading bot" and it's a Matrix-esque fusion of four screens, black cables, copper wiring, fiber optics, complete with a rotting bull's skull a nod to the lost writing system.
And while the copper wires (or fiber optics) are used for different purposes, the exact same wiring is used for regular phone service as well as 'special access'.
The Opportunity New Jersey plan, agreed to in 1993 by the NJ Board of Public Utilities, "NJBPU", changed state laws to charge local phone customers extra for this replacement of the copper wire with fiber optics -- and there have been multiple rate increases and tax perks over the next two decades, even though Verizon did not fulfill their obligations.
A stretchable laser could solve this problem by covering more area than wires or fiber optics.
The car is wired with fiber optics and multiplexing networks that connect sensors arrayed around the car.
