Broadband cables to be routed through water pipes in new trial

Re:Broadband cables to be routed through water pipes in new ... by danpalmer on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @01:16AM (#31011430)

FYI the "new" here is this specific trial, not the use of water/sewer pipes for fibre, which has been happening for about 15 years now.

i3 is an infrastructure company that do this. They trialled a sewer-based fibre network in Bournemouth where I grew up back in ~2010, although it never quite got past the trial stage due to contract issues. They've done similar trials in South Africa, Australia, US, and elsewhere. Not sure if any have rolled out to full scale usage but it's been long enough that I'd expect some have.

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Re:Broadband cables to be routed through water pipes in new ... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:03AM (#31013643)

A technique that is in trial for 15 years is a failure or a scam.

There is a company that has been working on tidal energy for more than two decades now, they are always trialing stuff, it costs millions and it has so far produced less power than you'd need for a lightbulb. And yet they keep getting away with it. This may well be such a scheme, after all, how many complications can there be before you've seen the bulk of them and you can decide to roll out at scale and for which situations the tech is suitable (and for which it isn't).

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Re:Broadband cables to be routed through water pipes in new ... by gareth_untether on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:22AM (#31012321)

Another commenter has said i3 isa scam company. Taking money to do trials that will never work.

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