moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to 4dtruth
Re: BPL will never overtake Cable/DSL
said by 4dtruth :
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Michael Cai, a senior analyst with Dallas research firm Parks Associates, does not expect broadband over power lines to take much business away from DSL and cable modems, which have become well-entrenched in many high-population areas. "It's best positioned in the underserved markets," Cai said of BPL.
Plus, with prices for lower-speed DSL access beginning to drop below $15 a month in many areas, BPL operators may have a harder time carving a niche in those places. Price, after all, was what drew Duquesne customer Reese to the power-line technology.
"Forty dollars a month is really a lot of money," Reese said. "At $19.99 - that's a lot more doable."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....back again? Guess you aren't using the callsign of a HAM anymore cause you got caught. 
If you think BPL is cheap, here is what an ISP in Australia is doing:
»whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1541
Only 2GB of data (including upload) for $80/month? :D:D
And people thought Comcast with their 2GB limit on newsgroups was bad.
»www.tastel.com.au/bpl/prod_benefits.html
These are the supposed benefits of it. Free VOIP? I wonder how long a call would it take to hit that 2GB limit? :D:D
Give it up troll boy, cut and paste doesn't cut it from this crowd and it is even further disregarded with your anonymous standing. |
moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| said by Dialup Sucks :
I had their Direcway for internet for a couple of years the second time around. For the price it sucks big time and I can't wait til someone puts them out of business. I was buying the 89 dollar a month service and all it gives you is a static IP.
I have been waiting on BPL ever since the first news article came out. Sorry, but if that is all that's available in your area, then you are stuck with it. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Simple.
said by Dialup Sucks :
Anyone that has broadband be it DSL or Cable does not need to be dissing the BPL. There are millions of people stuck with dialup over antiquated phone lines.
I would be willing to pay at least 60 bucks a month for DSL or Cable if I could get it. What you are willing to pay and what the broadband companies are willing to put out are 2 different things. Less people in an area = less return on investment. Areas with more of a population density (that have money to subscribe to high speed service) are more likely to be serviced.
said by Dialup Sucks :
Come on BPL. The Rural communities of America are waiting.
And the rural communities will keep waiting. Do a bit of reading into how this technology works and see how many repeaters would be needed to get the service down the wire. It is not cheap when it might take 4 or 5 repeaters to service one or 2 houses. If there was money to be made in rural deployment, others would already be there.
And before anymore of the perennial idiots come out of the woodwork, I DO NOT WANT TO LIMIT CHOICES!!!! I believe this country should make a concerted effort to get high speed service out to everyone at an affordable price. HOWEVER, BPL (in its Ambient format) is a detriment to the licensed radio services (not just the HAMS.) Most people are so blinded to the fact that they want high speed no matter who they have to kick out of the way to get it. Yet, these same people would be the first to complain if deployment of high speed internet interfered or took away something they wanted.
I lived in downtown Baltimore City where I did not have cable broadband and DSL did not work for me. I still would have never even considered BPL as an alternative. |
