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Whether it's a traditional carrier that needs to fill in a coverage gap, a content company that wants control over its infrastructure, or a school district that wants to be able to flexibly scale bandwidth to fulfill the growth of digital learning initiatives, we address these issues in our latest special report, Dark fiber creates new fortunes for ILECs, cable and CLECs (http://www.fiercetelecom.com/special-reports/dark-fiber-creates-new-fortunes-ilecs-cable-and-clecs) .
There are various drivers for dark fiber.
On one hand, many of the fiber indefeasible rights of use (IRUs) leases that service providers entered into during the mid-1990s "telecom boom" will expire throughout this decade. Service providers will soon be seeking to either build...