Sewer broadband

You may soon be reading this blog from an internet connection brought to you via your sewage system - that’s if you live in Bournemouth. Over the next six months the seaside town will become the first in the UK to have the new super fast broadband service, the cables for which are being laid through the town’s sewer system. Residents and businesses will be able to benefit from broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps and the scheme is cheaper and more eco friendly than digging up roads to lay the cables. I can picture vital emails getting lost as a result of a rat chewing through the cables…let’s just hope they’ve got that covered…