batageek
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Re: Ahh well
but even so, their own meter readings could be done wirelessly.
I'm a fiber guy for God's sake, but if I just wanted to read meters and try to offer some broadband offering (with no phone or tv offering), it would just seem to make sense to use a hybrid fiber / wifi system to accomplish that. You'd have much higher potenital for a competitive offering due to higher bandwidth (as far as I can tell) than you'll ever get out of a BPL system.
Again, I must be missing something.
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said by batageek  :I'd like to be supportive, but I don't get it. TXU electric here in Dallas/Fort Worth is plopping-down $10 million (as stated above). I think they know it'll be a consumer flop -- especially in a metro area that is well served by cable and telco broadband.
IMHO - TXU just wants the new data-grid for their own sensor/meter-reading network. It's damm good for that. TXU had to get it past the shareholders somehow -- and God knows they're dumb enough to think maybe this thing will pay for itself (heh-heh).
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batageek
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My question is specific to BPL technology, or delivering the last mile over powerline. Sure the backbone is fiber in most cases, but the most I've seen offered anywhere via BPL (correct me if I'm wrong) is about 6 meg down. If 802.11b already exceeds that right now, why would an investment in BPL make sense at all?
So assuming you use a pre-wimax or fiber backbone to link your "neighborhoods", woulndn't wifi "drops" be cheaper and faster than all the gear necessary to make a BPL drop to a home, even if they over-built the system and had a one-to-one drop requirement (one home gets a direct dedicated point to point wireless or BPL connection)?
I'd like to be supportive, but I don't get it.
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BPL still has a legitimate niche in those areas where other wired broadband products are not available. Of course, in those areas where numbers of possible customers are minimal, it is hardest to make a profit. So you don't get many power utilities interested in serving the areas most needing it. I have to agree with the columnist that satellite service is getting to be the best choice for those areas. And satellite prices are still dropping.
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| I think they should deploy this to the places that really, really need broadband service.
I think out west in MA has a few towns that are making a ruckus about not having broadband and parts of Maine, Vermont etc.
If they do this, they have a lot better chance of success and PR that is actually worth mentioning.
Not fit for big city deployments IMO...too much competition already.
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