Radiance, based in Los Altos, California, has proposed a solution that seeks to manage the necessary bandwidth better.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Charges for voice traffic may have fallen, but the sort of bandwidth necessary for e-commerce is still fearsomely expensive.

ECONOMIST: Telkom, the state telecoms monopoly, still has much to do

The growing demands of the U.S. military for the bandwidth necessary to transfer in a secure fashion immense quantities of video and other data in real-time to commanders and forces all over the world transform this fiber optic infrastructure being sold by Tyco into something else altogether - a force-multiplier of immeasurable value.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Strategic fire-sale