Photos: Fibre in the sewers to speed up UK cities

Waste water ducts can easily accommodate the fibre cabling (pictured above) that supports high bandwidth services.

Either Bournemouth, Dundee or Northampton will be chosen as the first city to get H2O's fibre treatment. Work will begin in September and if all goes to plan the deployment will be completed by March 2010.

Elfed Thomas, MD of H2O Networks, said in a statement: "This solution will help to resolve the issue that many households and broadband customers in the UK have insufficient connectivity bandwidths because they are attached to legacy networks deployed in the 20th century that just can't cope with demand."

Photo credit: H2O Networks