Significantly, this distance is long enough for almost all the spans found in today's fibre networks.
However, with optic fibre networks already present in many countries the infrastructure is in place for a more widespread use.
The city also has a significant optic fibre network, with nearly all major commercial and household areas covered.
The company has an extensive fibre network in the ACT.
It has its own private optical fibre networks in several cities.
The alternative, building out their own fibre networks, is capital-intensive, and thus unavailable to most new operators.
Wireless networking technology is being used as an alternative to cable and fibre optic networks.
This work usually accounts for more than 60% of the cost of developing fibre networks.
They are also involved in other related areas such as co-location, telehousing, and fibre networks.
Seven hundred people have already registered an interest in paying £30 a month to have their homes hooked up to a new fibre network.