said by Kommie 
:said by snorpus :BPL opponents haven't needed to astroturf to make their case: the Florida hurricanes of last summer and the recent tsunami in Asia have demonstrated the importance of HF communications, even in this age of cell phones and the Internet.
I am going to call BS on that one. Cell phones still worked during the tsunami.When the Florida hurricanes happened how did the old hams help ? Most of the state still had telephone access and the network was so large that carriers still worked for the cell phones.
And just to add to the fact that there are other ways of communication with out using hams, i.e satellite phones(Which are popular in Asia) used by the news media.
Ham is ancient let it go. We need more competition for internet and if BPL is going to give us a big upload speed then I find it more beneficial to all of us. Unlike hams which are used only by a niche certain percent of the population.
BPL could technically lobby for HF spectrum if it actually used it for providing service. The fact is it doesn't, it merely pollutes it. As such, it needlessly wastes wireless spectrum. We can have broadband and wireless HF spectrum. BPL is not needed to provide more broadband or competition as the barriers to this are political, not technical.
