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On 14/10/2010 7:46 PM, Brent Paddon wrote:
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<div><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span
style="border-collapse: collapse;">Supposedly rolling out
from early next year. No other details yet. Anyone know of
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The original announcements in 2009 were for a group called 'H20
Networks' as an offshoot of the i3 group, which is a UK firm
specialising in sewer deployments.<br>
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see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.h2o-networks.com/">http://www.h2o-networks.com/</a> for the UK parent firm, and
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.h2onetworks.com.au/">http://www.h2onetworks.com.au/</a> for the Australian (Brisbane)
website.<br>
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H2O networks have been doing this a while around the world, and been
reported on in Australia back to 2008:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/102018,uk-sewage-network-could-provide-super-fast-broadband.aspx">http://www.itnews.com.au/News/102018,uk-sewage-network-could-provide-super-fast-broadband.aspx</a><br>
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and from 2006 when they first announced their Fibre Optical
Underground Sewer System -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-153766470.html">http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-153766470.html</a> (can't find the full
announcement)<br>
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It all seems to be the brainchild of one Elfed Thomas who talks
about it here
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=11352">http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=11352</a>, who is also
CEO of i3 Group (or was in July 2010), so i3 and H20 networks
appears to be fairly interchangable.<br>
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From the reading I've done, it looks like an i3/H20 proposal after
much lobbying and demonstrations being given permission to build and
pay for the network, rather than an initiaitive driven by BCC.<br>
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Paul.<br>
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