said by nasadude 
:said by Gilitar :More competition is a good thing.
more relevant competition is a good thing. this is only relevant to a small number of people.
Right now, BPL is less relevant than sat broadband; and we see how well sat broadband is helping.
BPL is still in the "Powerline and Other" category in the periodic FCC broadband reports, even after five years of deployments in the U.S. The latest report which just came out with data up to June 2007 showed something just shy of 6,000 customers in this category. I don't have customer data for the first five years of cable or DSL, but I'm sure it was significantly more than 6K.
