revolutionising Bermuda's telecommunications.

The properties in the Collector's Hill area will be fed by underground fibre optic cables instead of traditional copper wiring.

With fibre optic cables, communication is carried out using light waves. This would include information relayed by computers and videos.

The Bermuda Telephone Company (Telco) plan to link properties throughout the Island to such cables.

"It will provide a platform for all future communications,'' said Telco general manager Mr. Ernest Pacheco.

He explained the cables could accommodate simultaneous "voice and video communications''.

Among those benefiting should be businesses which regularly transmit information via computers.

Mr. Pacheco said the project to lay cables and set up the necessary electrical equipment should be finished by the end of the year.

Telco hoped to start the trial involving the 100 properties at the beginning of 1995.

The trial would determine whether current equipment was adequate to reap the benefits of using fibre optic cables.

Mr. Pacheco said use of fibre optics greatly enhanced "quality of transmission''.