Telecommunications Council to suggest that optical fiber network link regional cities and towns in

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

From: cameronj () mcc com via the efj () twics com mailing list




The MPT Telecommunications Council will likely suggest in its soon-
to-be-released report that an optical fiber network be built in three steps
by 2010 to link cities and towns across the country by 2010.  Predicting
that  the integration of communications and broadcasting services will create a
123  trillion yen ($1.18 tril) market and 2.43 million new jobs by 2010, the
seven-chapter report says that investment in optical fiber cable network
construction alone will reach 33-53 trillion yen ($317.31-509.62 bil)
between  now and 2010.  It recommends that a Japanese version of an
information super-highway link major regional cities which seat prefectural
governments by
2000, cities with a population of 100,000 or more by 2005, and small cities
 and towns by 2010. (5/12/94 (Evening): Nihon Keizai [p.1]; 5/13/94: Nikkan
Kogyo [p.9], Nihon Keizai [p.3], Sankei [p.1, 9])
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