[BC] Update on BPL

[Ron Cole]

Well now.
Finally a utility that acknowledges that the business model for BPL wont
work.

Its been my argument that BPL made no sense from a business perspective.
The cost to deploy the system is more than they can recover in a few years
of operation. That does not include the operating and maintenance cost.
They, BPL operators, can't compete for broadband customers in the city where
the going price is less than $50/month.
The model is even worse in rural area where customer density is low.

Ron Cole

On 11/26/05, Tom Bosscher <tom at bosscher.org> wrote:
>
> Peter Smerdon wrote:
> >I recall a lot of angst some time ago on one of the lists about
> Broadband over Power Lines (AM interference worries).
> >Can somebody update me on whether this technology has made any inroads
> in the US - and if so, what the impact has been on the AM and ham bands.
>
>     BPl by most manufactors does not co-exist with low band ham radio.
> Motorola has a set of modems that neatly avoid all the amateur bands.
> But, it looks like BPL is just too expensive to install and maintain.
> Several utilities have tried and failed to get decent numbers of
> subscribers. In one humorous case, the spokesman for the utility blamed
> other broadband suppliers for having "prices that are too low"!
>
>     The ARRL has a whole lot of information. Look at
> http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/
>
>     tom bosscher  K8TB
>
>
>
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