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

62.   The company is building metropolitan-based fiber networks rather than a long-distance network.

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

64.   The company has built local fiber optic networks and switching facilities in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.

65.   The coalition wants to improve the roadway by building separate lanes for trucks and commercial traffic and installing a fiber optic network along the highway to track shipments.

66.   The company produces software that lets companies transmit data directly over a fiber optic network without using an intermediary.

67.   The fiber network will connect to a new operations center Qwest is building near East Riverside Drive and East Ben White Boulevard in Austin.

68.   The firm started as a developer of fiber optic networks that provides phone and data services to business customers.

69.   The firm also makes products used in the fiber optic network of the cable television and wireless communications industries.

70.   The Internet infrastructure company and its huge fiber network are under intense pressure like everyone else in the telecommunications business.