Bournemouth to get 100mb Broadband

Bournemouth to get 100mb Broadband

Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:31

It has been announced that Bournemouth will be the first town in the country to become a "Fibre City" with broaband delivery of up to 100Mbs. This is great news for those of us who work and live in Bournemouth and as work is scheduled to start straight away we shouldn't have too long to wait!

H2O, the company behind the project, announced;
This will be the largest Fibrecity project in Europe and the company will be funding and providing the network at a cost of around £30 million. The majority of the fibre will be put in the sewers using H2O Networks' patented FS (Fibre Optical Cable Underground Sewer) System. The fibre will provide ultra high bandwidth to all Bournemouth's businesses and more than 88,000 homes at speeds far exceeding current DSL or cable modem speeds, typically by tens or even hundreds of Mbps.

The bit that caught my attention was that the broadband cables will be laid in the sewers. So for those of us that spend time worrying about the internet going down the pan - it seems we aren't far wrong!


For more info, see: BBC technology website and Fibre City website

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