Is there still room for big ideas in telecom?

In “Bubble-era ambition in a post-bubble world,” the July/August 2011 Lightwave magazine interview with Hunter Newby, founder and CEO of Allied Fiber Inc., Newby describes a vision we haven’t heard since the telecom boom – the construction of a nationwide fiber-optic network. Needless to say, Newby found it much more difficult to find funding for his idea now than he would have then, which led to some creativity on his part…

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