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Fiber networks, notes analyst Michael Philpott of London research firm Ovum, are "future proof," meaning it's hard to imagine anything coming along that's faster. Scaglia, a telecommunications engineer and ex-CEO of Italian mobile-phone operator Omnitel, co-founded e.Biscom with Italian financier Francesco Micheli in 1999. A public stock offering in March 2000 raised $1.5 billion. The company now has about 145,000 fiber customers who connect through e.Biscom's FastWeb service, plus an additional 100,000 who access FastWeb's souped-up DSL service. While 145,000 fiber customers might not sound like...