[12.5] Delivery of Digital Information
Local communications are evolving in the 1990s along several
lines:
- Digital information will probably be delivered along with
traditional telephone and cable signals.
- Delivery systems
will include a combination of different kinds
of connections -- fiber optic, coaxial, and twisted pair copper wire.
- The Telecommunications Act of 1996 will allow competition
between both regional and national telephone companies and cable
systems for delivery of digital information.