41.   Scores of new companies, many backed by U.S. investors, are building their own fiber optic networks in Europe to offer high-speed Internet services.

42.   Sending light a greater distance without amplification translates to lower costs to operate fiber optic networks because less equipment is needed to boost the signal.

43.   She also predicted that the arrival of residential fiber optic networks would fundamentally alter community life.

44.   She said the company did not even have a detailed plan for laying the fiber optic network in Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Camden and Trenton.

45.   Sommer and Deutsche Telekom face competition, as well, from companies building high-speed European fiber optic networks.

46.   Still others, like Global Crossing, planned to wrap the globe in fiber optic networks.

47.   Telecommunications companies across the globe are battling to find users for their fast-expanding fiber optic networks, analysts said.

48.   Technology will make a comeback, but it will be the infrastructure companies building wireless, Internet and fiber optic networks.

49.   The BT Group is bent on wringing profit from its own fiber optic network before plowing more money into acquisitions.

50.   The company is one of several whose building of a huge fiber optic network created a glut of capacity.