31.   Fiber optic cables transmit data as pulses of laser light.

32.   Fiber optic cables, which use pulses of light to convey information, are capable of transmitting data far more quickly than traditional analog phone lines.

33.   Fiber optic cable, the backbone of many future high-speed Internet lines, can be now seen along some highways on utility poles.

34.   Finally, it has started a project with Deutsche Bundesbahn, the German national railroad, to lay fiber optic cable using the railway system.

35.   For instance, programming delivered by fiber optic cables is exempt.

36.   He recently bought shares in Corning Inc., which makes components for fiber optic cable and which holds some of the basic patents in the telecommunications industry.

37.   He said that in the not-too-distant future his company would install fiber optic cable that would allow the transmission of data and video services.

38.   Huge quantities of fiber optic cable, far beyond what was needed, were produced and installed.

39.   IBM and Dai-ichi Kosho are testing a home karaoke-on-demand system using fiber optic cable rather than regular telephone wires.

40.   In its earlier plan, the company would have used a mixture of fiber optic cable and coaxial wire like that used by cable television companies.