I'll apologize ahead of time for the lame puns, and note that the town of Bournemouth is the first town in the UK to use sewer lines to help deliver broadband services. More than 88,000 homes will now have access to fiber thanks to a $58 million project by H20 Networks. Paris has also been deploying a significant volume of fiber in the city's sewer system. Maryland-based CityNet Telecommunications made a splash back in 2001 for developing a fiber-laying sewer robot, but after $275 million in VC investment the idea never quite flushed. With the development of Corning's recent bendable fiber, perhaps this will be an increasingly common deployment method. Obviously, this isn't to be confused with Google's revolutionary TISP system.