The Fiber

The term “The Fiber” has become part of our usual language and although in many cases we do not understand very well everything it means, what we do know is everything it provides us. If we were to ask someone who was not related to the telecommunications sector, they would probably tell us that Fiber “is what allows us to have access to all the communication services in our home. From movies and music in streaming, to personal, teaching or business videoconferences, through games, shopping, booking tickets for events, fast internet access and everything that is to come”.

Precisely that “everything that is to come” is the most exciting part of this technology and it was what Telefónica anticipated more than fifteen years ago to launch an investment that in those days did not have, far from it, a clear business case.

This notebook describes what fiber is, how and when deployments began, why this technology was chosen over others, and how fiber contributes to the development of society at large through the digitization of businesses and homes.