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join:2003-08-10
038xx | said by ryanl88:
I'm saying that we need to find a way to make this work to keep us from getting stuck in the mud.
Many people, including myself, feel BPL is part of the "mud" problem: too many overlapping providers that are leveraging an existing infrastructure that was NOT designed for bi-directional data. All the major providers are such in this country: TV, telephone and now high voltage electricity networks. The only truly good, stabile, cheap resi services are those via the few munis that built a dedicated data network & sell access to for-profit ISPs. The countries that have excellent resi service (eg: korea, sweden) did the same thing years ago - and they are the only ones that reach less pop'd areas.
RF interference aside, BPL is poised to be another layer of suburban cash grab: the political jibberish about it providing cheap rural coverage is just that: jibberish. Wireless is *so* much cheaper to deploy to most rural environments. The BPL proponents are those with a profit potential because they own the already-build infra, not because it shows a technical, cost-efficacy, or rural penetration potential. |
