If islands like mainland Britain had their own dedicated Internet networks,
Web access wouldn’t slow to a trickle each time North America’s cities wake up.
John Andrews of Emsworth in Hampshire is claiming a cheap and easy way to build
such an infrastructure for island nations—laying a fibre-optic loop around
the coastline, just below the low-water mark (GB 2361124). This would avoid
negotiations with “greedy authorities or landowners”, he says. The submerged
loop connects to the mainland via spur cables that run in trenches dug at the
bottom of the rivers which pass most major cities.
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