BellSouth Corp. and two of its Baby Bell peers will soon award a national fiber optics contract worth up to $100 billion that will bring ultra-high-speed fiber lines directly into millions of American homes.This $100 billion fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) contract by BellSouth, Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communications Inc. will mark the first major push by telecom carriers to replace decades-old copper wires with fiber for some 70 million homes.Eventually, data, Internet, high-definition video and voice services will be provided on fiber lines that can carry 100 times as much capacity as today's DSL and cable lines.
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