dark fibre

noun

Unused optical fibre that is available for use.

Meanings

noundark fibre (uncountable)

alternative dark fiber

  1. uncountableUnused optical fibre that is available for use.

    Operating on stock exchanges became a matter of dark dealing, and of dark fibre.

    2018, James Bridle, “Complexity”, in The New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 108
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APA

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