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Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines
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."
Really though, if we're gonna have to make a choice between easy, high-speed data access and amateur radio, I think it might be time to retire the morse keyer. Sure, you might not be able to radio some guy in a basement in Hong Kong, but nowadays couldn't you just send him an e-mail?
But I bet resistance fighters during WW2 really did appreciate it, for example.
yeah, that was then. This is now.
There are a lot of great technical advances that were made by hams, playing and experimenting on their allocated bands.
There were alot of scientific discoveries using lots of things. But How many of these ham discoveries were in the past 10 years? Not to say that their couldnt be some new discovery, but this is just selfish coveting, not scientific necessity.
Hams have been using their slices of the spectrum for decades, and had to work and pay for the privilege. In short, if nothing else, I'll say we were here first, and so we do have some rights in the matter.
Thats why the FCC was created in the first place, so that the spectrum could be used as it best served our society as a whole. Not first come, first serve.