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BPL: The Internet's Fool's Gold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hand-meet-other-hand dept.

Joe Barr writes "One of the more fascinating tidbits of information I came across while researching this story on NewsForge about BPL, the fatally flawed wannabe-broadband-provider technology, was that at the very same time the FCC was downplaying the threat of the interference BPL creates, the FCC's very own test results were showing just the opposite."

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  1. suits. by Catatonic+Dismay · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There have already been many lawsuits. Expect even more.

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  2. Lying for Dollars by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, Bush's EPA, under ex-New Jersey governor Whitman, claimed the air around NYC did not exceed EPA safety thresholds for toxic chemicals. So people stayed around breathing it unprotected, including the heroes toiling in the WTC crater. But they were lying. After lies like that go unpunished, who can blame them for lying about something less explosive like RF interference?

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  3. Re:What if BPL is the ONLY choice? by Animats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somebody has to wire coax or fibre to your pole transformer. BPL is just from the pole transformer to the house. Who's going to do that long cable run?