Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs:
 ·Embarq
| It's a shame
I do wish that BPL didn't have the interference problem and was a viable third choice of broadband. I doubt anything will ever become of BPL, but hopefully someone will come up with something. I think that EVDO-style wireless connections are the real future in the long run. |
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halfband
Premium
join:2002-06-01
Huntsville, AL
 ·Comcast
| BPL is wonderful on paper, but there are too many technical issues. The progress made in high speed wireless communications will take what little market made financial sense for BPL. It may yet stake out a market in older high rise buildings that are just too difficult to run fiber, but as a mainstream broadband technology it is dead.
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roady1
join:2003-11-13
Cleveland, OH
| reply to Maxo
EVDO....
You can pretty much presume that the less effort a company has to make to supply a service, the more likey it's going to be provided.
BPL while ingenious, requires A LOT of extra pieces parts...where something like EVDO only requires that the customer purchase a card, and that a signal be pumped through the cellular towers already in existence...
EVDO will likely take it's place in the realm of "last mile" connectivity. |
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hyzmarca
@Level3.net
| reply to Maxo
Re: It's a shame
Dealing with interference issues is incredibly easy and won't cost much money at all. Anyone can do it, in fact. No technical skills are required.
Simply go to those people who are complaining about interference, look them straight in the eyes, and say "[vulgar synonym for 'have sexual intercourse with'] yourself".
Simple, easy, even politicians can do it if they try.
BPL is perfectly viable. It just makes some other services inviable sometimes. Its only a problem to the people who care about those services and people who care about those services are a very small minority. |
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