[BC] The FCC bends over...AGAIN

[Jerry Mathis]

On 10/24/07, Bill Harms <philcobill at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that one of the biggest
> selling points for BPL was that it would hook up users in rural areas
> that would not have ground-based Internet otherwise.  I am talking about
> the wide open spaces in the West especially.
>
> Bill




Yes, it was. But they discovered it's too difficult, or too expensive, or
both, to do BPL that way, because the signal has to be amplified and
re-transmitted every little whipstitch. So then it appears they want to
serve customers CLOSE BY.

After a little research, and a lot of common sense, I think BPL is just
plain bad technology. It was undoubtedly thought up by someone with little
knowledge of data transmission and RF systems, and a lot of time on his
hands, who was looking for a way to make a quick buck. We saw the same
stupid kind of thinking with the idea for radios in ambulances and emergency
vehicles to transmit a wideband warning signal. Someone wanting to make a
quick buck regardless of the laws of physics and the resulting unintended
consequences.





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Jerry Mathis