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But last night the World Development Movement (WDM) dubbed the move a "techno-fix" which would "do nothing to address the root causes of poverty and inequality, which are political".

The World Development Movement (WDM), the anti-poverty group, described the decision as a historic step forward, but said the UK government's opposition to tough controls had resulted in serious loopholes in the regulation.

WDM policy officer Murray Worthy said: "Developing countries urgently need finance to help them transition to a low carbon economy, but projects like the La Mata and La Ventosa wind park show the dangers of throwing public finance at multinational companies like EDF and Walmart".

WDM involves transmitting several separate channels of information down a single fibre, using slightly different frequencies (and hence colours) of light.

Now, with so-called dense WDM (DWDM), the figure has risen to around 160.Even DWDM, however, needs an extra laser to generate each extra frequency (most lasers can manage to produce only one frequency at a time).

It plans to be the first company to combine solitons with WDM in a commercial product.The most immediate application for the new technology is in long-distance transmission.

When they are so aligned, they act as polarising filters controlling the direction of vibration of any light that passes through them.The Corning switch works by splitting an incoming WDM stream into its component message-channel frequencies and passing each channel through such a filter.

And the third is optical switching, which will stop subjecting the signal to Moore's-Law-bound old technology in the form of electronic computers that cannot keep up with the speed at which photonics is evolving.UDWDM is a logical extension of WDM, currently the preferred way of transmitting photonic messages.

Indeed, the company is betting that soliton-based technology will become essential if network capacities are to keep pace with demand.Telecommunications operators have, for several years, been using a trick called "wave division multiplexing" (WDM) to squeeze more capacity out of their fibre-optic cables.

WDM spokeswoman Miriam Ross added: "David Cameron would have us believe that business and science are the answers to global hunger, but this ignores the implications of unpayable debt, unfair global trade rules and the increasing concentration of power in the hands of corporations at the expense of the poor".

Christine Haigh, policy officer at  the WDM, said the agreement "marks a historic step forward in efforts to prevent speculators pushing up food prices through their unregulated gambling on financial markets".