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Electric Companies Get Involved With Broadband
Billosaur writes "The Marketplace Morning Report on NPR has an interesting piece on how electric companies are getting into the high-speed Internet business with 'Broadband over Power Lines', or BPL." From the article: "By purchasing the right equipment power companies can quickly offer Internet service to millions of new customers. There are several pilot projects being launched in the US, including one in the Pittsburgh suburb of Monroeville. That service is being offered by Duquesne Broadband -- a spinout of the local power company.'"
Is finally being used by electric companies. How novel.
What kind of "Rolling Blackouts" can we expect from this service?
Why isn't the phone company rolling it out on their cooper lines?
Most power companies are required to buy extra electriciy if you generate more power for the grid than you consume. This usually only applies to folks with solar panels and other sources of power that end up contributing to the grid. They get to watch their power meters run backwards!
I wonder if the same principle could be applied to net data flows! I would love to be paid by the power company for massive file sharing since I would be contributing more to the 'net than I consume.
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
"What is coax but insulated copper conductor. With Edison's DC delivery methods, tried and proven over a hundred years ago, a single conductor with ground return has always been feasible. Now we will free you from the greedy power companies and their unfair monopolies one and for all. Bwahahaha!"
The combined telcos have scheduled a news-conference for later this afternoon.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I could tell you, but someone already did. In fact they put it in a nice format,and the submitter even made it so you only have to click a link.
WTF do you want, someone to read it to you?
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That's shocking!
The technology is almost cheap too at $200 for a pair of adapters.
Have you included the cost of repairing the system after the local HAM radio operators put an axe through the power lines? (BPL wipes out huge chunks of the RF spectrum)
http://blog.nexusuk.org
Before this turns into Little America, Take A Stand! Do NOT tolerate this abberation of technology, this bastard-child of economics and rhetoric! You want service for your dollar, not prosaic verbiage! Or just chill, and let it be. Lemme tell you a story.... LOL.