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gwion
wild colonial boy
Premium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
| BPL is a farce...
... a niche, interim technology. Oh, yes, let's postepone rural fiberization a few more years, let's postepone vDSL, even... let's milk a dead, 1960's technology, just so we can force the last five cents' worth out of our copper plant, before we take last decade's tech out to the boonies, so we can milk it some more. BPL is an interim fix; it's 2007, we don't need interim fixes, we need 21st century, lasting, "solutions". Today's word is "fiber"... "B over" is an anachronism... an absurdity, even...
I reiterate. BPL is a farce.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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| I'm thinking, for Rural areas, Wireless may be their last, best hope. I don't see fiber being economical to run for a long time out into the rural areas, but a highspeed wireless option could cover a large area with much less startup costs.
Seems this 700 mhz auction really could be even more important for that reason alone. If the big players get it and sit on it, it's going to be a sad day for America's information infrastructure, IMHO.
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