Most Successful U.S. Broadband Over Powerline Network Shut Down > Taxpayers of Manassas got hosed

reply to Gbcue

Re: Taxpayers of Manassas got hosed

Yeah, the problems with BPL were pretty well spelled out for any city or town that wanted to investigate it...

BPL was the favorite "third pipe" technology of think-tanks and consultants paid by incumbent first and second pipers (DSL and cable) to pretend that there would be competition instead of monopolies and duopolies.

Who knew that revenue-bond-funded muni fiber might emerge as the actual potential third pipe? It has a lot more legs than BPL.

A few years ago, I thought the Current project in Texas would basically jumpstart BPL because of the scope, investors (Google, among others), necessity, mixed broadband/smart-grid properties, deregulated/unbundled market, etc.

Nope. When Current failed to handle TXU's market, that made it clear that this would never work for broadband.

GPON! GPON! GPON! Forever.