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cable has certain definite advantages over copper cable. The
fiber optic cable is much smaller in size and has a greater
transmission capacity than copper cable. It further allows
higher speed transmissions and requires less maintenance than
copper cable.
However, from 1987 through the time of trial, it was not
economically feasible for NITCO to install fiber optic cable in
the homes or business premises of its customers. From 1986 until
sometime in 1987 or 1988, Kyle was NITCO's fiber optic cable
specialist. During 1989, while he was employed as NITCO's
general manager, Kyle authored and published a white paper for
the independent telephone industry stating that, at that time and
for the immediate future, installation of fiber optic cable by
local telephone companies in residences was not economically
feasible. In the paper, Kyle expressed the opinion that there
was then no economic justification for local telephone companies
to incur the high cost of installing the fiber optic cable in
residences, because no significant additional revenues would yet
be produced for them from their installation of the cable in
residences.
From 1987 through the time of trial, NITCO has not installed
fiber optic cable in residences or in the business premises of
its customers. However, NITCO has installed and utilized fiber
optic cable in connection with other parts of its telephone
service system. Its employees have laid and installed the fiber
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