21.   Endesa, for example, could lease its fiber optic network to Retevision.

22.   Global Crossing, the telecommunications upstart that is building a world-wide fiber optic network, seems to have a revolving door.

23.   Global Crossing, which has few of its own telecommunications assets, hopes to build a global fiber optic network to transmit data via the Internet.

24.   He said that by-and-large the deployment of fiber optic networks had followed the same routes carved out by first telegraph and then long-distance telephone networks.

25.   His reputation has been shattered and his dream of operating a worldwide fiber optic network is in tatters.

26.   In a region of crackling phone lines and garbled faxes, some South American nations are also starting a multibillion-dollar fiber optic network.

27.   In addition, Qwest also installs fiber optic networks for other telecommunications companies, the SEC filing said.

28.   It is the economics of fiber optic networks that has produced the flat-rate pricing now becoming familiar to long-distance customers.

29.   It plans to spin off its British fiber optic network in February.

30.   It operates fiber optic networks in Frankfurt, London and Paris and is building them in numerous other cities.