Sewer, faster, cheaper
E-commerce
07 December 2007
Fibre cables running through the sewers could help the UK broadband market keep up to speed, offer an improved service and be quicker to install, the BBC has reported.
H2O has already installed Fibre Optic Cable Underground Sewer (FOCUS) networks in Universities in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Bournemouth, giving students and staff high-speed connections to the web.
Elfed Thomas thought up the idea a few years ago and his company installed its first network in 2003. He said other types of upgrade would be more costly and streets would be dug up, causing disruption.
"It costs between £150 and £200 per metre to dig up the roads and our costs are nowhere near that," he claimed.
A further benefit of 'sewernet' would be the price to the customer.
"You can have 10Mbps or 20Gbps and it costs the same," the BBC reports him as saying.
Research from uSwitch found that two million Britons signed up for broadband in the past year and predicted dial-up will only account for four per cent of connections by 2011.
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