[BC] BPL flaws

[Ron Castro]

Excellent article, and it's good to see that the tide is finally beginning 
to turn against BPL.  The Japanese nixed it long ago, and more recently, the 
UK determined that the interference levels were unacceptable, based on FCC 
standards (The UK has no standards similar to our Part 15, so they rely on 
ours).  Several good points were made in the reply comments at the end, one 
of which was that "rural America", has been made out to be a third-world 
existence, with uneducated, buck-toothed, barefoot people, which is hardly 
the case anymore.  If there are people like that in rural areas, it's 
unlikely they would buy a computer, even if Internet access was free.  The 
article points out the real problem: deployment will start in cities, 
because that's where the money is.  Rural service will still be costly, and 
there are no guarantees that service will ever move to the outlying areas.

Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Peterson" <kzerocx at rapidcity.net>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:56 AM
Subject: [BC] BPL flaws


> There is an interesting piece on BPL being flawed technology.  You do not
> have to register at this site.  As always, watch the wrap.
>
> Gary, K?CX
>
> http://internet.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/2040240&tid=152&tid=14
> 1&tid=13&tid=3
>
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