NTELOS announces Fiber Network enhancements. (Networks).

America's Fiber Network is targeting wholesale markets. But GPU Telcom Services Inc. isn't overlooking the retail market. "We're doing another joint venture as well, called Telergy Mid-Atlantic," says Ned Raynolds, a spokesman for GPU Inc. of Morristown, N.J. Raynolds says GPU Telcom, a GPU Inc. unit, has joined with Telergy ......

MCLEODUSA INC.'S plan to purchase CapRock Communications Corp. is the latest consolidation among cash-crunched competitive local exchange carriers, industry experts say. McLeodUSA, which provides local and long-distance telephone service in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states, signed an agreement last week to buy telecommunications provider CapRock for approximately $532 million ......

Leaders in Fulton County recognized that access to fiberoptic cables, which can transfer large volumes of digital data and voice signals at high speed, was critical to economic development. However, when the map of' the Ohio fiber-optic network was published by the state, it showed no fiber in northwest Ohio.

Once cutting edge, fiber optic cable is now the backbone of choice for health care organizations with growing networks. The question today is not whether to use fiber, but how much and where. As fast as light. That's the promise of fiber optic cabling. As health care information networks carry ......

Six energy and telecommunications companies have created America's Fiber Network, a high-speed fiber-optic company connecting major markets in the Northeast, the Midwest and the upper South to secondary markets with a growing need for broadband access. The new company is a "carrier's carrier," providing telecommunications capacity to Internet service providers, ......

Fiber optic network operator LightCore launched commercial service in new markets in Louisiana and Texas. St. Louis-based LightCore is the leading regional fiber optic network provider in the central United States with more than 12,000 miles. LightCore added three high-capacity fiber rings with more than 2,150 route miles of new ......

Several companies have developed procedures for placing fiber-optic telecommunications cable in pipes that are part of the underground utility infrastructure. CityNet Telecommunications and Ca-Botics Fiber Systems employ different robotic techniques to install conduit to hold fiber cable inside sanitary and storm sewer pipelines. Sempra Fiber Links has completed a test ......