Fibre through sewers - nothing new - the UK firm H2O were trialing that 2 years ago and are now actively going to roll it out.

maybe this isnt just sending internet traffic. maybe they are using these tools to inspect your poo too. from your excretion its possible to know what food you ate, so they will know what shop you went to and therefore how far you travelled. from a marketing point of veiw they can sell the information to people who want to buy your shopping habits. big bro just got bigger.

I saw this company introducing the concept back in 1994 in Regensburg with Alcatel, if they haven't managed to sell it by now I don't think much will come of it.

Does this come into my house via the potty then? What a loonatic idea!

Might work but you realise its just another nail in the coffin of humanity.

Come the Rise of the Robots® robotic annacondas will now emerge from the u-bend smelling of poo and scare the bejeezus out of us with reams of insidiously placed optic fibre cable.

In the meantime just wait till one of these buggers gets stuck halfway up the soil pipe!

with the introduction of this missing first half S.H (Sewer Harvesting) Department I.T is now complete till the Judgment Day. Meet S.H.I.T.

Congratulations on falling for one of Google's april fool's jokes.

It would be a shitty job to have to dig up and repair any faults.

Go from router to rotorouter. If you have tree roots busting through sewage pipes as often as they do in the area where I live, this would seem like a really bad idea.

Also include ABC, CBS, NBC, and all their cable adjuncts, especially
[P]MSNBC, the news pron channel (not to be confused with pron news.) Oh, and NPR and so-called "public" TV.

Hell, it's ALL crap!

Just the place to route packets carrying blogosphere, usenet, Fox News and pron traffic.

Everyone knows that this already exists. You guys are way behind the curve.

http://www.google.com/tisp/