hi frank,
Here is an interesting post at the fool.com in response to my post. The poster goes by the alias "telegraph"
boards.fool.com
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"Known as broadband over power line, or B.P.L., the service is poised to challenge the cable and phone companies that dominate the high-speed Internet market. Instead of burying cables and rewiring homes, B.P.L. providers use the local power grid, which means that any home with electricity could get the service."
System after system has been shut down by the FCC as 'non-compliant'.
Broadband over Powerlines is really Broadband Pollution via Powerlines. IT tries to use frequencies used by international shortwave, ham radio, and emergency and government services.
HEre are some links.
Don't get your hopes up. So far, just about every system has been shut down when after months or years of efforts, the interference which is catastrophic to normal services cannot be fixed. It is an inherent problem of the technology.
read up here first before you get excited about 'investing' and losing your money in this technology.
Country after country around the world has banned this. Soon , the USA will likely follow.
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Not only that, city after city are finding the 'economics' of competing against the cable company and the telephone company are not there. It takes as much, as if not more, 'investment' in hardware to serve customers. BPL cannot guarantee service. Interference from licensed radio services can easily wipe it out, and there is nothing the BPL provider can do. YOu want substandard service?
At the moment, BPL is a few equipment manufacturers looking for a market somewhere to sell a lot of equipment that will be obsolete the day it is put in, cause massive interference, and likely will be shut down before six months have passed. The are dangling the possibility (remote) of big bucks and 'tax revenues' in front of unsophisticated gov't agencies in the hope of getting them to use tax dollars or rate payer guarantees and rate payer dollars to subsidize their ventures into areas they don't understand, from tiny vendors who will disappear overnight, and leave them tens of millions in debt.
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