MCRSR1
join:2004-07-01
Columbia, SC | BPL & Malaysia & Google Perhaps BPL supporters and basher should pay attention to the financial markets. Last week, there was an article on the CNBC/Money website that stated BPL will be deployed throughout Malaysia and available to all, by the end of this summer. I suspect the folks at Google, an 80 billion dollar media company, have enough smarts to know a good investment when they see one. Betcha Time Warner, Cox, Comcast, SBC, Bellsouth, Quest and other broadband providers aren't sitting around being naysayers. To date, I haven't heard anything from those companies concerning the growing threat of BPL competition. There are a lot of folks worldwide, who live in rural areas and under-served by broadband access. The company that can deploy broadband everywhere will turn out to be the winner. Folks at Google as well as savvy investors know that all to well. Fiber is nice, but I suspect its much more expensive to deploy. I don't recommend holding ones breath if they are expecting to have fiber access in their home anytime soon. In fact, its going to be a very long time before its fully operational throughout the US. Wall streeters will let us all know when it will happen. After all, somebody had to make, sell and service the equipment. Nice rhetoric here, but money talks and BS walks. I wonder what company(ies) is providing the equipment for Malaysia's BPL intiatives? |
N3EVL
join:2004-12-13
Shrewsbury, MA | You seem to be implying that if BPL is successful as an investment then there's nothing to complain about and we should all be happy?
Do you discount entirely all of the negative attributes of this technology?
Do you discount entirely the cost-of-deployment arguments made previously?
I don't give a rat's rear end how successful or otherwise BPL might be in making Google and others wealthy if, in doing so it renders the HF spectrum useless. |
