wierdo
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Tulsa, OK
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·Teliax VOIP
| BPL is just plain wrong..
Someone else called it a nightmare looking for a problem. Perhaps not, but it is certainly a solution looking for a problem. If the electric company owns most or all of their poles, they're better off running fiber.
They already have linemen who can pull it, and they get all the benefits of network monitoring and such. The only real cost is the fiber itself. Since you're not paying for as much in the way of field electronics, it probably comes out a wash, especially with fiber as cheap as it is these days. Fiber gets incredibly expensive when you have to pay somebody to bury it, but when you can have existing employees hang it on poles you already own, it's essentially free to install it as time permits.
The only extra costs are the same costs you'd incur doing BPL. A few people to manage the data side of the business and the cost of a transit provider and a circuit to reach them. |
