3d fiber-optic phone link in Manhattan

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Metropolitan Fiber Systems Inc announces it has readied Manhattan's third private fiber-optic telephone system. The high-capacity system will provide large corporations with inexpensive, reliable telecommunications connections to long-distance carriers and to the New York Telephone Company's switching centers. Private fiber networks are gaining in popularity because they often undercut the prices offered by regional phone companies and they provide large corporations with a fault-tolerant system of backups. Critics of the private lines say they are skimming the highest profit, easiest to serve segment of customers away from the regional telephone companies. They caution that the result may be increased prices for rural and residential users whose prices are traditionally subsidized by large corporate accounts.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Usage, Services, Telecommunications systems, Fiber optics, Manhattan, New York, New York, Telephone systems, Telephone System, Telecommunications Service, Private Networks, Metropolitan Fiber Systems Inc.

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A.T.&T. might shift cable ships abroad

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AT and T plans to employ foreign seamen on two new undersea cable-laying ships. The telephone company cites economics as the reason for its decision not to employ American workers; foreign seaman command one-tenth the salary their American counterparts do. Operating ships under an American flag is expensive because of laws that require stringent safety rules, higher wages for crew and the need for additional safety equipment. Many companies are registering their ships abroad to save on these costs and it has resulted in a fall in vessels flying under the American flag; 770 vessels were operating under the American flag in 1970 as compared with only 379 in 1990.

Telephone communications, exc. radio, Planning, Telecommunications services industry, Telephone companies, T, Economics, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Employee Relations, Telephone Company, Cables, Submarine

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