Reply to post: Re: wireless cables?

Wires, chips, and LEDs: US trade bigwigs detail Chinese kit that's going to cost a lot more

Richard Plinston

Re: wireless cables?

>> "individually shielded optical wireless cables"

> Could you fit any more oxymorons into a single phrase?

Optical cables do not use wire, they use glass fibres, therefore 'wireless'.

Of course optical cable could also have [metal] wires included, for example: to carry power*, but they wouldn't be 'wireless'.

* a wire could be added simply to defeat the tariff.

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