UK homes to get super-fast broadband

The sewer system could provide part on the answer in getting superfast broadband to homes cheaply and quickly.

BBC News reports that:

Laying fibre in sewers saves costly and disruptive road digging.

The UK's first "fibre town" could go online in the autumn, delivering speeds of about 100Mbps (megabits per second) to consumers' homes.

Fibre firm H2O provides super-fast broadband via the sewers and either Bournemouth, Northampton or Dundee will be offered the service first.

The fact that the sewer-based fibre takes advantage of existing ducting means there is no need for expensive and disruptive road digging, making the system faster and cheaper to deliver.

For consumers, super-fast net connections could create a range of new applications including on-demand high definition (HD) TV, DVD quality film downloads in minutes, online video messaging, CCTV home surveillance and HD gaming services.

Full story at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7202396.stm