Verizon can get shirty about the word "fibre". America's second-biggest tele-coms operator successfully complained to the Better Business Bureau that competitors had touted "fibre-optic fast" to consumers, even though their broadband networks did not run fibre all the way to the home, as Verizon does. This is not just a te-chies' argument. By an order of magnitude, an all-fibre network is the fastest way to move information from one place to another on the internet and Verizon has the largest such network in America. The difficult bit is making money from it.
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