• We sat there drinking lemonade, like an old married couple, watching the kids passing on bicycles, a squirrel scampering along a telephone wire.

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  • The company that the group started that day, Grand Junction, would go on to build Fast Ethernet, running at 100 megabits per second on ordinary telephone wire, ending Ethernet's bottleneck.

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  • At one point, he tried to call the Poxley volunteer fire department, but the creosote pole that supported the telephone wire had already gone up like a torch, taking his service away.

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  • Yet there is clearly a huge opportunity, given the gap between the quality of Internet access most Americans enjoy at work (through high-speed direct connections) and at home (through a copper telephone wire).

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  • "The law was put on the books back in the '70s when we were using the copper-wire telephone, " he said.

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  • The local loop assets cover the last mile or so of wire between telephone exchanges and homes.

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  • Satellite telephones should also be useful in shipping and aviation, as well as in less-developed countries that lack either modern fixed-wire or wireless telephone infrastructures.

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  • He bets that corporations will ditch their old wire-line telephone hardware and buy new phones that send and receive calls over the same broadband connections that hook desktop computers to the internet.

    FORBES: Celtic charm

  • Look at the old mandates that require the firms we used to call telephone companies to maintain their copper-wire phone lines and voice-call switching infrastructure.

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  • As a conductor of light beams, a given volume of the fibers can carry many times as many impulses as a similar volume of copper wire, and may eventually obsolete the latter in telephone communications--as well as in computers, aircraft and for many military purposes.

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  • They're not so much tapping the wire and writing things down as taking millions and millions of records of people who have talked on telephone, up to a trillion, I am told.

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  • On an out-of-town trip Carlsbad state senator Joseph Gant Jr. read a wire- service story -- by chance -- about the Lyons fiasco and got on the telephone to other Carlsbad influentials.

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