H20 Networks, which is currently busy preparing to cover Bournemouth city with an 'up to' 100Mbps fibre optic network using the local system of underground sewers, has understandably given a warm welcome to Ofcom's recent next generation broadband consultation document.

H2O initially deployed high speed fibre optic networks to businesses, including universities and councils, using the UK sewer system as a duct to lay the fibre. The success of these deployments later resulted in Fibrecity, which will see high speed networks connecting entire towns and cities:


Work will start next month on the UK's first Fibrecity in Bournemouth which will see connectivity speeds of 100 Mbps to all homes and businesses in the area. A Fibrecity deployment in Dundee will follow early in 2009, with other towns and cities announced in due course.