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.
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Sounds good to me.