KB3JUV
join:2004-02-15
Lewes, DE | Lets do something useful with Comcast and Verizon! Why don't we get Comcast and Verizon together to make up some BS statements about how BPL will screw everything up. They have the outlets to make people want to listen. Comcast and Verizon are regional monopolies and need to find a way to not lose another chunk. Comcast has satellite to worry about and Verizon has Cavalier to worry about now. They can't lose their broadband internet services to the power companies. Lets get something useful out of them... |
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Why don't we get Comcast and Verizon together to make up some BS statements about how BPL will screw everything up. They have the outlets to make people want to listen. Comcast and Verizon are regional monopolies and need to find a way to not lose another chunk. Comcast has satellite to worry about and Verizon has Cavalier to worry about now. They can't lose their broadband internet services to the power companies. Lets get something useful out of them...
BS statements aren't useful to either side. In the Amateur community we've largely taken the high road and have kept to the technical facts. We don't need misinformation from large corporate interests....we already have some of that from BPL interests (i.e. "there hasn't been interference", "BPL radiates only as a point source", etc...)
I think you'll see the legal teams of the Comcasts and Verizons attack BPL, but from a regulatory front. They can do what they want, but we shouldn't ride their waves because it isn't relevant to Amateur Radio or HF communications, IMO. |
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 AD7BKPremium
join:2000-03-23
Havre, MT | reply to KB3JUV
Welcome to Broadband Reports. And BPL wont last long the CBers will take em out hi hi
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All this hype is just stupid the commen consensus is that this BPL is goint to start up overnight everywhere there is a powerline and its going to knock out all the ems and emergency systems throughout the world and everybodies going to die ....
Ok no first of all do you REALLY think that there going to allow some upstart broadband provider to knock out all these essential systems comeon people lets get real.
Oh and from readin Im still not sure whether you have made up your minds whether the ham will knock out the BPL or vice versa. So just get off your soap box take a chill pill and how many of you have seen this awesomely destructive BPL that gives everbody cancer and makes ambulances blow up? |
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All this hype is just stupid the commen consensus is that this BPL is goint to start up overnight everywhere there is a powerline and its going to knock out all the ems and emergency systems throughout the world and everybodies going to die ....
Ok no first of all do you REALLY think that there going to allow some upstart broadband provider to knock out all these essential systems comeon people lets get real.
Oh and from readin Im still not sure whether you have made up your minds whether the ham will knock out the BPL or vice versa. So just get off your soap box take a chill pill and how many of you have seen this awesomely destructive BPL that gives everbody cancer and makes ambulances blow up?
I think we all agree that BPL won't be everywhere at once, but from the FCC rhetoric one would think otherwise.
You seem to imply there's confusion within the anti-BPL interference camp. There's varying opinions and theories but it's been shown that there will be interference to HF services and HF services could easily interfere with BPL. Interference is most always a two way street, so if you're looking for a clear cut interference "winner", there ain't no such thing in real life. The point that one needs to realize from all of this is that BPL technology and HF services will make each other's existence rather miserable.
Will planes drop out of the sky from BPL ? Probably not. But if you're implying the FCC will protect HF and VHF services, think again. They probably wouldn't intentionally wreck spectrum, but they ignored 5000 comments that were filed by concerned parties and ignored several studies and field measurements. They didn't wait for the results of a study by the NTIA. Considering this administration's lousy record, I wouldn't put much faith in them.
Call this a soapbox if you like, but we're tired of rosy head-in-the-sand misinformation from press releases from BPL vendors, potential carriers and clueless FCC Commisioners with up-and-to-the-right revenue growth charts.
BTW, here's a link to a recent article about the ongoing 800Mhz interference fiasco, unrelated to BPL »www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori···09:56+AM . The FCC has been didling for two years trying to figure out how to resolve it... and no one can argue the interference is "unproven" or "theoretical". |
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