Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers

You won't believe where they've laid a cable...

By Steve Ranger, 22 July 2008 10:00

silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a much more high-tech network which it is now hosting - Geo's business broadband network. Here silicon.com editor Steve Ranger dons protective gear and gets ready to go underground.

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  1. 1. Patricia Grumbling

    er........it's just a bunch of cables underground.

  2. 2.

    When you say that the cable is to big for rats to get thier jaws around it - you are talking about normal sized rats arn't you - what about the monster rats that live down there?

  3. 3. Steve Oliver

    yeew, what's the brown on photo 8...!?

  4. 4. anonymous

    This story has been running on and off for about 20 years

  5. 5. anonymous

    Good point - the state of the cables in picture 9 suggests that they have actually been there a long long time already.

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