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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7827438" data-attributes="member: 92282">Australia's third-largest city is investigating bringing high-speed  broadband Internet to Brisbane homes and businesses using its sewer  pipes to carry fibre optic cables, Channel 7 News reported.  It was reported Saturday that Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said  residents could soon have access to next-generation broadband technology  at no cost to taxpayers.  Newman said Brisbane city council is in discussions with a British  company seeking to put broadband fibre optic into the city using  Brisbane's sewer system.  Since the sewer pipes already connect all the buildings in the city  and little additional digging will be required, the city can be  fibre-optic hardwired relatively quickly and inexpensively, Channel 7  News said.  "We want 100 megabits per second fibre-to-the-home and we want it  now," the mayor said.<a href="http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/07/03/14597896.html?" target="_blank">torontosun</a></blockquote>

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