Get In On The Global Internet BOOM! Get In on the Global Internet Boom!!!
Telecoms have been replacing copper with fiber optics for decades, but the trend isn't played out yet. Here's how you can make a play on optical fibers and participate in the growth of the backbone of the Internet. fiber optics stocks are HOT again Corporate spending has been healthy and telecommunications providers are spending in hoards to get their respective networks up to speed. This spending has translated into countless new 52-week highs across the sector and many companies have raised earnings. You still have an opportunity to cash in on this growth. The real challenge comes in picking out which companies have the most room left to run. Since the telecom bubble burst and wiped out $2 trillion in stock market wealth more than 10 years ago: laying miles of new fiber-optic cable. After years of licking its wounds, and with much of the fiber-optic cable capacity in the ground still unused, the telecom industry is going on another building spree. Some 19 million miles of optical fiber were installed in the U.S. last year, the most since the boom year of 2000. In fact, demand for fiber has explode online video streaming continues to take off, some companies and analysts say. Companies like Netflix Inc., Apple Inc., Hulu and Amazon.com Inc. deliver movies and TV shows to consumers over the Web. But media executives note widespread adoption of such services are stressing the existing Internet infrastructure. "When there is fiber to several billion homes around the globe a number of years from now, we will look back at today as only the beginning," a Netflix spokesman said." "Thank god for Facebook," Mr. Sellenriek, a 40-year veteran of the business, said in a middle-Missouri drawl as his crew dragged a 57,000-pound cable plow and tractor through the dirt outside Excelsior Springs." We are a lot smarter than we ever were 10 or 15 years ago," says James Crowe, chief executive of Level 3 Communications Inc. His company helped define the telecom boom by building its own network from coast to coast, beginning in 1998. It lost more than 90% of its stock-market value a year after hitting its high in March 2000, but it was one of the few to survive the bust.
In recent months, for the first time since the 1990s, Mr. Crowe has started extending Level 3's fiber-optic network into areas where he hasn't yet signed up any customers, betting that the demand he needs to make money is there.
He is starting small, investing $50 million in such projects, less than 10% of Level 3's capital investments this year. But he says the company built a database of three million office buildings, data centers and cellphone towers, pinpointing areas where Level 3 can risk expanding its network without first selling the new capacity.
"The demand has become so obvious," Mr. Crowe said in an interview at his headquarters in Broomfield, Colo. referring to the surge in bandwidth intensive uses, like streaming video and smartphones. "You've got residential neighborhoods that consume more bandwidth than all of New York City did 15 years ago."
Valdor Technology VTI TSX is one of these such companies "room for explosive growth" Getting in early is the key to any up and coming technology. We learned this in the hay-days of the dot.com era. Telus, Bell, Rogers have committed Billions for the build out of their networks.
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If Valdor's management can prove to the smallcap venture market it will be a contender in the next telecom boom! The stock could trade many times the multiples we are seeing today. Obviously, a great start will be landing the $10,000,000 Canadian tender with the major telecom they answered RFQ for in late 2015.