Another potential threat to entrenched cable television franchisees is emerging as major telecom providers are pushing to deliver programming over their fiber-optic lines. Verizon Communications Inc.

Customers agree: Fiber is good for you Satellite and cable television services might have more formidable competition in telephone companies than they might have imagined, judging from customers' ...

TV - Commercials mocking Verizon's FiOS, while touting cable firms' own fiber networks, strike some viewers as misleading NEW YORK -- Avery Axel was annoyed with his cable company, Comcast, and was ...

To carry information over long distances, the fiber must be extraordinarily clear. The magic behind an optical fiber’s transparency is a combination of material science and manu ...

A group of technology companies has applied for permits to build a hub near the beach in Carlsbad that would connect the United States with New Zealand and Australia via fiber-optic cables stretching ...

TODD? TODD: STACEY, FOLKS IN BEAVERDALE HAVE BEEN SEEING CREWS INSTALL THE FIBER OPTIC CABLE, EITHER HANDING IT FROM LINES, OR BURYING IT UNDERGROUND IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE THREE. THE COMPANY IS ...

The first transatlantic internet cable ever is being retired and pulled from the ocean floor. Here's how it's being done and what happens next.