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evoxfan
Waiting On Dsl Or Cable
join:2004-02-12
Daleville, AL | reply to SumDumGuy
Re: What I wanna know is...
plus, this gives people hope that doesn't have broadband available to them now because they live in the country.
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rf_engineer
join:2003-08-04
USA
| said by evoxfan  :
plus, this gives people hope that doesn't have broadband available to them now because they live in the country.
It's really questionable whether it will. The business model for deployments in rural areas is tough. When you consider that BPL has less of a range than cable and DSL, costs to backhaul the network are significant. Also, repeaters cost anywhere from $1k to $5k. If you need a repeater every 100 yards or so, and there's only one subscriber every quarter mile, it's tough to have this system pay itself off anytime soon. It's very likely if you don't have cable passing your house, you'll never see BPL.
If BPL was a long haul technology such that it could transport data tens of miles (as many people erroneously perceive), it might have a chance in rural deployments, however it's far from being able to do that. Add to that the considerable interference concerns and the five or six years they've been trying to get this to work, BPL has a difficult future ahead. | |
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