Broadband going underground

The work that is needed to install the new super fast broadband cables is a huge undertaking, it involves planning and digging of up roads or paths, but in some most places there is a ready made place that a cable could be easily laid in a fast, safe and non-disruptive manner.

The UK’s sewer system is over 360,000 miles long and is connected to most urban homes. So H2O networks is a start up based in Wales who are proposing to do just this by connecting homes in Dundee, Bournemouth and Northampton within the next few years and have plans to do the same with a further fifteen cities over the next five days.

BT estimates that in order to dig up all of the roads and lay the cable needed to connect all of homes in the UK, it would cost an estimated £15 billion, but by using the sewer method this cost is reduced by up to eighty per cent and would be completed much faster.