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H2O Networks lay a cable in Scotland 
An article on H2O Networks published yesterday in the Scotland on Sunday revealed how the Dark Fibre company plan to unroll leased FTTK lines to ISPs operating in Dundee once their network is in place.
The piece says how residents living in the City of Discovery will be able to sign up for high speed broadband services “through an internet service provider such as BT, Sky, or Virgin Media, who will rent access to the lines from H2O.”
H2O estimate that cabling a town of 75,000 people can be done for as little as £10m, compared with the £70m it could cost if roads and pavements had to be dug up. However, the population of Dundee and its surrounding towns and villages is more than double that figure, so by their own reckoning H2O would be looking at a total cost in excess of £20m.
The article also says how H2O would have to dig up the final few metres of road from a sewer cabinet to the premises home to connect the service and that this “could cost £10 to £50 a metre.”
An H2O spokeswoman said: “We are in talks with various agencies and Dundee will definitely be the first place in Scotland to get it, the only question is whether it will be the first place in the UK to receive it.”
1 Comment »Posted by Tom on February 4th 2008 in BT Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, Sky Broadband, Virgin Media
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Andrew HN Gray said on 22 Dec 2009 at 7:33 pm #
The first think they should do is learn how to pronounce ‘aitch’. I had some floozie trying to sell me something from ‘Hedge’ 2o. Don’t they educate them nowadays?