Morgans wrote:

Fiber optic strands carry light. Metal carries electricity.

True, but the long distance people are getting power to the repeaters over fiber
somehow. We in the local telecom business suspected that they were using light over
fiber to drive photocells, but apparently fiber is a conductor if the voltage is high
enough. Personally, I'm suspicous of this claim. DC current is very prone to voltage
drop over distance, and we're talking 1500 miles or more (half the Atlantic ocean).
Still, with 4,000 volts, there's room for quite a bit of drop. I'd love to see the
specs for this.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.