Shimon Lyons emails: “Thought you might be interested in this...it looks like the idea behind Google TiSP, their April Fool’s joke, may be becoming reality in the UK...”

Compare the two for yourself – Google TiSP, and the new product as described in a Personal Computer World article:

Welsh firm H2O Networks has announced it is to provide super-fast broadband via networks laid in the sewers.

The company has shortlisted three towns to test the new fibre-optics system; Bournemouth, Northampton and Dundee. It is now in talks with the towns’ councils about providing the service that can reach speeds of up to 100Mbits/sec.

Source:→ Google Blogoscoped

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