said by Siryak 
:said by Some Poster :
BPL, on the other hand, is still a novelty because (as best I can tell) it's never been successfully / profitably deployed on a large scale. Like the hot air balloon idea, it seems more of a conceptual oddity than a practical means of providing broadband.
Actually I did a little research on the hot air balloon and I must say it looks promising. A very large very sturdy GPS guided balloon that travels high up in the air with low wind turbulence and some sonar panels, can serve internet, cellular service, tv, etc. It only needs to come down like once every 15 months for refurbishing. Personally I think that these things will replace it all one day.
Yeah, until some whackjob decides to fuck with a 10-20 mile radius community by shooting the balloon down.
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