U.S. approval of AT&T-DirecTV deal expected as soon as next week

AT&T Inc's proposed $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV is expected to get U.S. regulatory approval as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, a decision that will combine the country's No. 2 wireless carrier with the largest satellite-TV provider...
July 02, 2015 by Luis Cardenas

Researchers to test new optical fiber 3D printing technique

Researchers at the University of Southampton, UK, are to investigate using 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, techniques in the fabrication of optical fiber...

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911 call center outage after a cut in a Fiber Optic Cable

A severed phone line is affecting emergency service dispatch in Jerome and Lincoln counties...

How competitive is the telecom/DSL industry?

FCC looks to gauge competition level between telecom carriers; big guys say it’s all good, little guys, not so much...

FBI investigating 11 attacks on San Francisco-area Internet lines

The FBI is investigating at least 11 physical attacks on high-capacity Internet cables in California's San Francisco Bay Area dating back a year, including one early Tuesday morning, according to a report in USA Today...

Top: Wi-Fi Routers for Fiber Optics - Upgrade your 2020 FTTH network

The arrival of fiber optics as a competitor in the global connectivity industry is now a reality. The great advantage of fiber optics is the high velocity at which data transfers as a beam of light inside the cable, reaching speeds far greater than those of a copper wire...

Faster and Longer Fiber Optics for the future

Electrical engineers have broken key barriers that limit the distance information that can travel in fiber optic cables and still be accurately deciphered by a receiver....

The future starts with Google Fiber

Determined to conquer the market of internet service, Google has put in action a plan that will revolutionize the world and change the way that we use the internet. This new service is called Google Fiber, a connection to the internet of up to 1 Gb/s in upload and download speeds.  This system will offer speeds that are up to 100 times faster than that of the current average connection...

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