1.   MBS is exploiting the fibre optic network that has been installed between all telephone exchanges in the New England area.

2.   It is the availability of the fibre optic network that helps MBS address the problem of setting up the interactive links between the service itself and its users.

3.   There has been a big investment in a high-speed fibre optic network, which permits very high speeds of communication not formerly feasible.

4.   Among its top holdings are Voicestream Wireless, a cellular phone provider, and Qwest Communications, a phone company that is building a global fiber optic network.

5.   And a fiber optic network is a fat, fat pipeline.

6.   And at least half a dozen telecommunications companies have installed fiber optic networks to provide high-speed data communications through the main business areas.

7.   And the Williams Cos., which supplied Worldcom with its first fiber optic network, the Wiltel communications unit, recently started yet another national fiber optic network.

8.   A stock analyst said that Henson was just bluffing, hoping that his talk of building a fiber optic network would scare off potential new entrants into long-distance service.

9.   A strong element in the new year will be fiber optic network equipment and relay stations for cellular phone systems, the company said.

10.   Bresnan operates cable systems in northwest Poland as well as a fiber optic network in Warsaw.