Level 3 lights up U.S. fiber net for France TÃ©lÃ©com
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Just over four years into a 20-year agreement, France TÃ©lÃ©com SA is abandoning a U.S. dark-fiber network it rented from Level 3 Communications Inc. -- and replacing it with a network of lit fibers, also from Level 3, the companies announced Tuesday.
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The NYT has an optimistic overview on broadband over power lines, calling it "the ultimate plug and play." [Broadband Blog]
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 9--TOKYO -- Toray Industries Inc. said Friday it will invest a total  of 55 billion yen to boost its production capacity of carbon fibers at its  three bases in Japan, the United States and France, by the beginning of 2009.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators on Thursday adopted rules aimed at tempting electric utilities to offer broadband services -- a move officials hope will someday enable US consumers to jack in to the web from virtually any power outlet.
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France launched the sale of at least 9.6 per cent of France Telecom, a move that could raise up to $7.1 billion US that will be used to help the French government reduce its national debt.
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Light regulation will encourage this alternative form of high-speed Net access.
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The technology promises download speeds of 1 to 1.5 MB per second, reaching peaks of up to 3.2 MBps. So far, Cisco, IBM and Nortel, all major sources of equipment to telecom service providers worldwide, have
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As it stands, there's almost twice as much bandwidth across the Atlantic as there is across the Pacific. But with new U.S. FCC approval for the first ever China-U.S. fiber link, this is all about to change.
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Optical fiber can deliver data fast, sometimes too fast. Slowing light might make some networking bottlenecks vanish.
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AT&T said Wednesday that it will expand its 3G footprint and upgrade the network to give users a boost in upload speeds.
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Time Warner Cable TWX.N plans to  offer its high-speed Internet customers free access to America  Online service, in a deal that could potentially add 3 million  more high-speed subscribers at the cable division, Time Warner  executives said on Monday.
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The performance fibers business makes high-strength polyester fibers at plants in North Carolina and France.
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AT&T announced free Wi-Fi for its broadband customers and added a new 10 Mbps tier of service.
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PARIS  - France launched the sale of at least 9.6 per cent of France Telecom, a move that could raise up to &#36;7.1 billion US that will be used to help the French government reduce its national debt.
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DSL at 3mbps debuts in areas within company's existing footprint.
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54.5 million Europeans surfed the Web over a broadband connection, a 60 percent increase from 34.1 million 12 months earlier. AMSTERDAM: More than half of Europe&#39;s Internet surfers now have a high-speed broadband
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First products from Alaxala Networks include a high-end gigabit router, a high-end multilevel switch and a mid-range multilevel switch.