| Aircraft radios - serious interference from BPL BPL does not just interfere with the Amateur Radio Service it also interferes with aircraft communications and is a safely threat.
Read the details here;
»gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retr···16183088
The comments were filed by Boeing – the folks who build a lot of planes (747, 777, 737 etc.)
The fact that the FCC has totally ignored these comments (and about 6,000 others) and continues to “cheerlead” this failed gross polluting technology raises serious questions of negligence by the FCC commissioners. |
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| said by David95037:
...raises serious questions of negligence by the FCC commissioners.
As those of us in the Broadcast industry know, the FCC has been the "business partner" of Clear Channel and other large corporations for several years now; it's been many years since the FCC applied their original mandate - to serve the public interest. As mentioned in the Philly article about Verizon, the telcos have received millions - in some cases billions - to provide the infrastructure to serve ALL of their customers with broadband access. For a FAR smaller amount of money than BPL deployment, every copper phone line could be upgraded to handle DSL. For all of the funding and tax breaks the telcos have received, it SHOULD have already been done.
BUT, as the telcos (and cable companies in some cases) don't see a suitable profit from these rural areas, municipal efforts and private enterprise WILL come into the picture in a bigger way. Since we will all be getting our internet, phone, TV, and maybe more from one "wire" one day, each day these "incumbent providers" delay in providing these services is just one day closer to their extinction. Now I for one wouldn't mind seeing that day come soon. Having spent plenty of (wonderful) time in rural areas, I sympathize with the desire to see BPL work, but better solutions are coming - thanks to the hardships today, they hopefully won't say "Bell" in the name (or Sprint, Verizon, etc.)! |
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| reply to David95037
People just haven't realized that the T-word (terrorism) will solve this debate. All someone has to do is to point out that this will interfere with communications with mobile aircraft and could prevent those aircraft communicating in the case of a terrorist incident. Case closed. |
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