Bournemouth residents to get 100Mbps in March

The first thirty households in Bournemouth who signed up to H2O Networks‘ Fibrecity trial are getting ready to try out the capabilities of the next-gen broadband network that runs through the sewer network before connecting to cabinets located just outside each property.

H2O Networks Ltd have announced that the lucky thirty will be able to begin testing the up to 100Mbps broadband service sometime in March.

Some 5,600 households and businesses have signed up for the service; should the initial trial of the thirty prove successful, then it is thought that rollout across the rest of the network will swiftly follow.

It has been estimated that this particular network will cost around £30 million to complete, but once every house and office is online, and will be free for everyone who is using it until the H2O engineers up sticks and leave the area, after which anyone wanting to stay connected is going to have to pony up.

We’re not expecting 100Mbps download speeds to come at anything less than a premium price; Virgin Media customers on the standalone version of the new Size: XXL package are pretty much paying a pound-per-Mbps for their new high end service.

H2O Networks also plan to unroll a similar scheme in Dundee at some point in the near future. The Bournemouth network is thought to be the largest fibre optic project of it’s kind in Europe.

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