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Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines

Posted by timothy on from the keep-your-jacks-straight-please dept.

prostoalex writes "Earthlink dedicated $500,000 to delivering broadband connections over power lines by launching a test drive of the technology with Progress Energy in North Carolina. 500 homes involved in the projects can sign up for promotional pricing of $20/month, which after 3 months will be changed to $50/month. No word on bandwidth provided, but Ambient Corp., which provides technology for the project and accpeted EarthLink investment, claims data rates exceeding 10 Mpbs."

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  1. Re:Interference problems... by ev1lcanuck · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    The only one of those I would have any sympathy for is Military Communications and maybe CB Radio. The military has advanced equipment (they'd better with these tax rates) and they can change to a different frequency. I'm sure CB can be worked around.

    Where I live we get no form of broadband and I'm getting 18KBPS connetions on average through EarthLink. I'm very happy that they've chosen to pursue this service and can't wait to sign up.

    Something tells me I'm going to get my first flaimbait post :-D