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Fibre by the sea
Categories: Web 2.0
08 May 2008
Bournemouth will be the first UK town to benefit from new fibre-based broadband delivered through its sewers, the BBC has reported.
Work will begin in the next six months to extend business provider H2O's network to consumers.
"Many households and broadband customers in the UK have insufficient connectivity bandwidths because they are attached to legacy networks deployed in the 20th century," said chief executive, Elfed Thomas.
Previous installations by the firm have provided several university campuses with connection speeds up to 100Mbps.
Ofcom is looking into the roll-out of new sewer-based infrastructure to help replace UK's ageing broadband network.
According to Juniper Research, by 2013, 12 per cent of DSL broadband subscribers will use the new Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) network.
BT is currently upgrading its vast copper cable infrastructure with a new 21CN network that promises to bring faster connection speeds.
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