By Graham Hayday, 10 December 2001 14:10
NEWS Broadband Britain could soon receive a boost thanks to an ambitious plan to run fibre through the country's fragrant sewage tunnels. The company behind the idea, Citynet International, believes this will help solve the last mile bottleneck which is restricting broadband penetration in some towns. It has applied for permission to trial this in one unnamed major city and hopes to expand the scheme elsewhere. CityNet will use a robot to put the cables into existing underground pipes. CityNet has already been given the go-ahead to wire up Vienna and Seville, and also has eight US cities lined up.
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