Dundee to get super-fast sewer broadband

20 June 2008

Scottish city to be second to get 100Mbps sewer broadband

Dundee will be the UK’s second city to get super-fast broadband, it has been announced.

At the beginning of May, Bournemouth became the first ‘Fibrecity’ when super-fast broadband was installed using an underground network of fibres in sewers, allowing users to benefit from speeds exceeding 100 megabits per second (Mbps).

H2O Networks, which fits fibre optic cables in sewer networks, has announced that it will commence work on installing this next generation broadband in Dundee in 2009.

Currently, the city’s council and university are already benefitting from the new technology. However, H2O say that the super-fast broadband should be available to all 55,000 homes in Dundee by 2010.

Elfed Thomas, CEO of H2O networks, said: “Dundee is the most densely populated city in Scotland, but this project will see us bringing connectivity to more remote areas, as Fibrecity is an all inclusive solution.

“Many households and broadband customers have insufficient connectivity bandwidths because they are attached to legacy networks deployed in the 20th century that just can’t cope with demand.

“Our solution is a totally new network that does not try to connect old and new cables. With speeds in excess of 100Mbps, it brings us right into the 21st Century and beyond,” he added.