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Re: Oh No interference!! said by P Ness:So what is a little interference? let the market decide which service is more important.... If there were no other means to deliver broadband, and BPL could actually live up to the misconceptions its promoters create and journalists repeat (i.e. Internet everywhere there is a powerline, cheap rural access, faster than cable and DSL, etc.), you would have a halfway valid point. But the truth of the matter is those misconceptions aren't reality.
Most microwave ovens tend to play well with other devices in homes because of regulations that ensure electromagnetic capability. BPL is the only broadband access method that uses regulations intended to allow spurious slop from electronics devices (which keeps manufacturing costs reasonable) as the foundation for its entire existence. As such, it will always be at odds with and at the regulatory mercy of licensed wireless services, due nearly entirely to the FCC's poor job of understanding BPL and blindly promoting it in the name of competition. Competing products and not wireless spectrum regulatory policies should be sifted out and determined by market forces. |
