11.   The telecommunications infrastructure will include the use of fibre optic cables which will enable Telekom Malaysia to offer various broadband and multimedia services.

12.   He added Malaysia was currently exporting fibre optic cables to Europe and Asian countries but the exports were not significant.

13.   High capacity fibre optic cables will link end users via a string of telecom switching centres around the world.

14.   AT and T executive Walter Fulcher told AFP that the only major optical fibre cable to Africa currently runs through the Atlantic from South Africa to Europe.

15.   Fibre cables offer users larger data carrying, faster capacity and higher resolution.

16.   Eurotunnel would seek a licence to operate a little-used optic fibre cable running through the tunnel and would then rent it to another company.

17.   The US telecommunications giant MCI is to start linking Beirut and New York by undersea fibre optic cable from April, Industry and Oil Minister Assad Rizk said.

18.   It has already announced that it is trying to exploit an under-used optical fibre cable to enter the telecommunications business.

19.   NEC officials said the order from China Uncicom would be the first fibre optic submarine cable in China.

20.   The charge comprises not only the bomb but also all the measuring instruments which allow the vital information to be gathered in microseconds thanks to a fibre optic cable.