Bournemouth is to be the first UK town to embrace a new way of getting broadband – via fibre optics in the sewers.

Work is to start in September, but residents and businesses will be invited to get connected for free this week by H2O Networks, who are funding and installing the necessary cables at a cost of £30 million.  Anyone who signs up will be able to use Fibre to the home (FTTH) technology to send and receive data and businesses in the Bournemouth area will have a distinct advantage over those in the rest of the country.

http://www.connectedneighbourhoods.org.uk/bournemouth-to-lead-on-broadband