New phone lines for data planned by small company

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Metropolitan Fiber Systems Inc will initiate a high-speed fiber-optic data network, which will directly compete with services offered by local telephone companies. The service will be available within twelve months in the following cities: Houston, New York, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Boston. Metropolitan Fiber's network will transmit data at a rate of 100 million bits per second, which compares with a rate of 45 million bits per second offered by local telephone companies. Regional Bell Holding Companies (RBOCs) plan to provide a system called Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS), which will start sometime in 1992. Metropolitan Fiber is banking on its early entry into the market to give it an advantage.

Telephone communications, exc. radio, Telephone companies, Fiber optic networks, Fiber optics, Data communications, Telecommunications transmission technologies, Telephone Company, Telecommunications Industry, Telecommunications Services Industry, Metropolitan Fiber Systems Inc., SMDS

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'Baby Bells' rift threatens an advanced phone service

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The Bell regional holding companies are bickering amongst themselves over implementation of Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)-based service and thus may be holding up modernization efforts for the US. Japan and some European countries are seen as ahead of the US in modernizing their telephone networks. Competition from cable television firms and specialized fiber-optic carriers is also cited as a major impediment to the Bells' implementation of ISDN standard-based service. Issues of modernization methods, rates and specific standards are key points of contention between the carriers. Larger corporate customers enjoy ISDN service, but often public use has been hampered by differing standards employed by various carriers.

Holding companies, not elsewhere classified, Standards, Management, Usage, Regional Bell Operating Companies, Digital communications, Integrated Services Digital Network, Telecommunications Service, Digital Communication, ISDN, ISDN (Network standards)

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