FEMA Opposes Broadband Over Powerlines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday December 15, 2003 @10:32AM from the sizzle-to-fizzle dept.

Curmudgeon Rick writes "According to eHam.net, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has put a submission to the FCC strongly opposing the use of powerlines for broadband distribution. The report can be found here [PDF link]. IMO, vendors should let powerline broadband die. They keep defibrillating it only because of the dollars they poured in; but it is and always was a dead duck." The submission concludes: "FEMA has concluded that introduction of unwanted interference from the implementation of BPL technology into the high frequency radio spectrum will result in significant detriment to the operation of FEMA [emergency] radio systems such as FNARS."

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FEMA is an unconstitutional entity by sujan · 2003-12-15 10:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Lets leave it at that.

People in general should be aware of FEMA and how much power it has. It's not even funny.

If it (broadband thingy) interferes with their activity, then it must be really serious.