 MellowPremium
join:2001-11-16
Salisbury, MD | key word "rural" Thats fine if they use it for the boondocks applications. Just dont bring that crap into the big city screwing up everything else. Im sure alot of people would rather have this than satellite. |
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w2co
join:2003-07-16
Longmont, CO | It has also been said many times that it will not be profitable to deploy in remote areas, the big cities are the first place it will be deployed as the customer base there is much larger. Another BIG mistake by the FCC. This may be good in a way for now, the problems will show up big time as soon as larger areas are wiped out by the RF hash created. I wonder when the NTIA study will be released? |
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Even if it's just rural, it's still bad. The noise from BPL will still find its way back to civilization thanks to radio wave propagation. |
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said by w2co:
It has also been said many times that it will not be profitable to deploy in remote areas, the big cities are the first place it will be deployed as the customer base there is much larger. Another BIG mistake by the FCC. This may be good in a way for now, the problems will show up big time as soon as larger areas are wiped out by the RF hash created. I wonder when the NTIA study will be released?
It's funny how Powell latched onto the rural promise of BPL. That's probably the weakest pillar of the BPL model. "Internet in every outlet" is another fallacy. While I realize this is political rhetoric, can you imagine the amount of infrastructure to make this work ? Meanwhile there's copper pairs all over the place and an obscene amount of unlit fiber traversing the country.
As far as the NTIA study, I'm not sure the FCC cares. They ignored 5000 comments, several studies, and field measurements. Unless perhaps Powell doesn't want the death of BPL blamed on his administration and he wants the NTIA to pull rank and pull the plug on BPL. |
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w2co
join:2003-07-16
Longmont, CO | Well my guess is that as soon as the Bush admistration is voted out, Powell will follow! He's just trying to do his damage now before the ship sinks...This is what I mean when I say "heads will roll" for this crappy decision. |
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