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aztecnology
O Rly?
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Murrieta, CA
·Verizon FIOS

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Re: Yet more confirmation that BPL has failed

said by David95037 See Profile :

Many better ways to deliver broadband
DSL
Cable
Wi-Fi
WiMax
Fiber
All are faster and they all work
And they all cost money to provision/deliver/maintain/upgrade service. So $h|t or get off the pot... and looks like they fell off...
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DaSneaky1D
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The Lou
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It's one thing to spend money to deliver the product. It's quite another to spend exceeding amounts of money to deliver the product.

Data doesn't travel far over the meduim BPL uses. Having to install a repeater "every so many feet" just to deliver the product over a square mile isn't economical.
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aztecnology
O Rly?
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said by DaSneaky1D See Profile :

It's one thing to spend money to deliver the product. It's quite another to spend exceeding amounts of money to deliver the product.

Data doesn't travel far over the meduim BPL uses. Having to install a repeater "every so many feet" just to deliver the product over a square mile isn't economical.
Depends on what "exceeding" means? Installing repeaters along with their infrastructure is a lot cheaper than trying to build a fiber optic network over the same distances....

The bottomm line is that they don't think they can run a profitable operation with BPL. Better to cut their losses now instead of throwing good money after bad..
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