ARLA/CLUSTER: [BPLandHamRadio] Broadband service over power lines in Texas to shut down

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Subject: [BPLandHamRadio] Broadband service over power lines in Texas to
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Broadband service over power lines in Texas to shut down
By PETER SVENSSON – 23 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Goodbye, broadband over power lines. We hardly knew
you.

Once touted as a possible third option for home broadband that could
compete with phone and cable companies, the idea of providing
Internet service over power lines now looks like it has died in
infancy.

A Texas utility company said last week that it is taking control of
the equipment that was to be used in the largest planned U.S.
deployment of broadband over power lines, or BPL — and won't be using
it to provide Internet service.

Oncor Electric Delivery Co., the Dallas-based distribution arm of
former TXU Corp., said it will buy the network from BPL technology
provider Current Group LLC of Germantown, Md.

The network was to offer Internet service to 2 million electricity
customers through their wall outlets. Instead, Oncor will use the
data capabilities of the network to monitor the electric grid.

"Our business is delivering electricity, not being an Internet
provider or a television provider," said Oncor spokesman Chris Schein.

Other BPL trials have met with similar fates, though a few are still
in operation. Compared to coaxial cables and copper phone lines,
power lines are poor conduits for data. Some deployments also met
fierce legal resistance from ham radio operators, who found that BPL
created radio interference.

The Federal Communications Commission was a booster of BPL. FCC
commissioner — now chairman — Kevin Martin said in 2004 that the
technology had the potential to become an Internet
solution "throughout the United States."

Yet the FCC found only 4,776 BPL subscribers in the country at the
end of 2006, the latest figures it has published.

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Save the Radio Spectrum! Eliminate Broadband over Power Line.

Salve as frequencias de rádio. Não use a rede electrica para transmitir
dados. O PLC causa fortes interferencias noutro serviços sem voce se
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