ARLA/CLUSTER: [BPLandHamRadio] Broadband Over Powerline Future Fading Away

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Broadband Over Powerline Future Fading Away

A Texas company's purchase of Current Group's BPL business, combined
with downgrades in Australia, does not bode well for future use of
utility powerlines for broadband transmission.

By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
May 8, 2008 02:31 PM

Dying slowly over the past few months, the hope of using utility
powerlines for broadband transmission is receiving what appears to be
a conclusive nail in its coffin as a Texas utility company this month
said it will buy the broadband-over-powerline (BPL) business owned by
Current Group.
The purchase by Oncor Electric Co. of Dallas of Current Group assets
is the latest in a string of disappointments for the nascent BPL
industry. Just a few years ago, BPL was viewed by many as the
exciting new technology that would challenge cable and DSL broadband
and create a much-needed third broadband option for consumers.

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Pioneering BPL deployments in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and in
Manassas, Va., have also faded. In Manassas -- once the pioneering
test bed for the technology -- the city's supplier, ComTek, has been
sold. Ham radio operators had waged a long and contentious battle,
charging that BPL interfered with their signals.
The Sault Ste. Marie provider, Amperion, has left the BPL business
and reinvented itself as a provider of hybrid networks.

In Australia, different utilities have either dropped BPL deployments
altogether or are downsizing them to a point approaching demise,
according to recent media reports.

Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell and current Chairman Kevin Martin
were among the early and enthusiastic cheerleaders of BPL.

ComTek, which supplied the technology in Manassas, envisioned the
technology as a template for hundreds of municipal BPL networks. The
Manassas deployment received grants from the American Public Power
Association, the state of Virginia, and the city of Manassas.
Interference was one problem, expense was another, and quality was
another, according to various reports.

In Dallas, Current Group and DirecTV had hopes of offering BPL
service to 2 million consumers, but the now-familiar complaints,
cited above, resurfaced and the project never got wheeling.

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