The sunny Dorset town of Bournemouth, famed for it beaches, golf courses and many hills, is to become the first UK town to get next-gen Dark Fibre broadband access.

More than 88,000 homes and businesses in the coastal town will benefit from eye wateringly fast speeds of up to 100Mbps (megabits per second) in the next six months under the £30 million scheme, which has been undertaken by Dark Fibre specialists H20 Networks, whose activities we’ve been chronicling on this very blog.

Elfed Thomas, CEO of H20 said: “This is just the start of bringing next generation connectivity to the UK… Many households and broadband customers in the UK have insufficient connectivity bandwidths because they are attached to legacy networks deployed in the 20th Century that just can’t cope with demand.”

Dark Fibre is the term used to describe the method of fibre-optic cable access that is delivered to kerbside clusters via the existing sewer network.

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