Roll over Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), the gas companies are after your business.

According to a report in USAToday a company in San Diego are planning to send broadband over existing gas cables connected to customers houses. As US  federal rules that limit the strength of ultrawideband signals don't apply in underground pipes the proponents of the idea say that power levels can be boosted to provide each household bandwidth of up to 6 gigabits per second, nice.
Yet the power is low enough so that signals can share the pipes with natural gas without starting a fire, which is good. Like all good technologies it has an acronym, Broadband In Gas, or BIG.

As the proposed installation cost is half that of BPL and only a fifth of cable you would expect gas companies to be queuing up to test the technology, but as so far none have done so shows that it is an idea rather than a serious contender to deliver broadband.

Will it be the waterpipes next?