| The main problem with BPL Forget for a moment whether the problem is either technical or economic, the much bigger problem is that it creates the illusion that there is a new wizbang tech solution in the pipeline for deploying broadband to rurals, and that the technical guys (or the finance guys or the market analysts) will eventually fix this. Meanwhile you ain't gonna see any progress in deploying broadband into rurals, the DSL folks or the wISP people (in cases where service coverage is better done wireless) are not getting the proper signals to get moving any faster. The FCC guys are saying somebody will take care of this while still wining and dining at the taxpayer or lobby expenses and not doing the job they are supposed to do, namely public service and effective governance; why are we not seeing the NOI FCC ruling yet? I must gather that sound technical or even financial judgement is not a performance criteria anymore to perform these functions. Throwing technical or financial resources at BPL take these resources away from elsewhere in the economy where they could be much better used. This really bad farce has to come to an end. I myself got caught earlier on in the neat technical aspects of BPL as an engineer but eventually woke up to some basic realities, thanks to rf_engineer (&the hams) public service work.
I am doing a wake this week-end over BPL going EOL and hope that next week it will just be like a bad dream that finally came to an end. |
