rf_engineer
join:2003-08-04
USA
| reply to ctceo
Re: Hot.
Hot? It's tough to even classify BPL as lukewarm at the moment. After about nine years of development and four years of lobbying and extreme promotion in the US, BPL is in only 0.1% of the zip codes in the US. This figure counts both commercial deployments and trial systems, and most of the systems don't cover a majority or even a large portion of the zip code they are registered in.
A lot of the public is misled into thinking BPL is faster and better than DSL, cable, and even fiber and they have been told BPL can be deployed essentially anywhere there are power lines and that it is a viable rural solution. Despite this non-factual hype and a demand for broadband that is greater than ever in a society that considers Internet a necessity, BPL deployment is still back at the starting gate.
Note that the two paragraphs above don't even mention interference, presumably the "illegitimate prophecy" you allude to. |
