Sheffield has become the latest place to start having H20 start to deploy their super fast fibre broadband into their sewers.
H20 Networks deploy fibre optic networks in the sewers to help reduce costs by not having to dig up roads to lay their cable. For the Sheffield project they will lay their fibre in a 15km ring around the city which will then link up to another fibre network already laid.
The H20 fibre networks are able to deliver broadband at speeds up to 100Mb which is substantially faster than the 40Mb that BT say that their own fibre network will be able to deliver.
The work in Sheffield is expected to be completed in September and following that H20 will continue to roll out their service to other cities across the UK.
The trial services will be available via BT Openreach which means that other broadband providers, including Sky and O2 Broadband will also be included in offering the FTTC to their customers.
It is reported that the owners of the German based Deusch Telecom, the owners of T-Mobile UK have instructed JP Morgan to approach Vodafone to see if they would like to bid for the mobile phone operator.
Customers can choose from the Standard, Premium or Pro deals for those living in the LLU areas, for those who aren’t living in an area where O2 has it’s own LLU equipment then the O2 Home Access is available which also offers the 2 months free broadband but it will be delivered via standard copper network and not O2′s ADSL2+ network.