DURHAM, N.C. -- Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they’ve become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one ...

INTO LAW EARLIER THIS YEAR. HAPPENING TODAY, TWO FIBER INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL BE ABLE TO START WORK AGAIN IN ALBUQUERQUE. THE CITY ISSUED A STOP WORK ORDER EARLIER THIS YEAR FOR EASY FIBER ...

LIMA — Allen County commissioners voted Thursday to approve a Road Use Maintenance Agreement between the commissioners, the county engineer and Brightspeed of Ohio to allow for the installation of ...

FLOYD COUNTY, Ind. (WDRB) — A company in the process of installing fiber optic cables in a southern Indiana neighborhood has been ordered to immediately stop all operations. The stop-work order was ...

In Grover Beach, construction crews are installing steel conduits in the ocean to hold subsea fiber optic cables. “Ninety-five percent of all telecommunications traffic happens on a fiber optic cable, ...

City Council continued its evaluation of how to bring internet access across Cleveland, one of the most digitally redlined and deprived areas in the country, on Tuesday as the Utilities Committee ...

HOUSTON — Maribel Guerrero won't soon forget the day her Cinco Ranch front yard turned into a river. "It was a terrible day, I would say, very surprising," Guerrero said. "They hit the water pipe, and ...

HONOLULU — U.S. Navy Region Hawai‘i and Hawaiian Telcom are touting the completion of a joint project that put the largest fiber-optic cable ever installed in Hawai‘i beneath Pearl Harbor. Running ...

Fiber uses fiber-optic lines that transmit data at the speed of light, whereas cable uses coaxial cables, which are traditionally used for TV service. Fiber typically offers faster upload and download ...