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Old 30-03-2007, 12:14   #4
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Re: Is it time for a publicallly owned internet provider?

Yep, Bournemouth Council are doing this with the sewerage pipes... although they're only really using it for backup purposes in case their existing BT lines go down.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1...9286165,00.htm
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Elfed Thomas, managing director for H2O Networks, claimed it is 80 percent faster to lay cables in the sewers and said it offers organisations a fixed-term cost rather than bandwidth tariffs, which means no further charges are incurred when extra capacity is needed.
Sounds good to me.
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