Re: ARLA/CLUSTER: NOTÍCIAS DO PLC

[Carlos Mourato]

Paz à sua alma!!!...Um por um vão cair todos!!!!..Nós sobreviveremos

2008/5/23 JOSE PROENÇA <gct2hiv  gmail.com>:

> Newspaper Reports "BPL plan is dead in Dallas"
>
> The *Dallas Morning News* has reported<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-current_02bus.ART.State.Edition1.460d413.html>that "an ambitious plan for using power lines to deliver fast Internet
> service to 2 million Dallas-area homes collapsed Thursday." Current Group,
> LLC has announced plans to sell its Dallas BPL network to Oncor, a regulated
> electric distribution and transmission business, for $90 million. Oncor
> reportedly has no plans to offer Internet service but will use the network
> to detect distribution network issues. While Current originally touted the
> network as a way to offer Internet service to consumers and had entered into
> a marketing arrangement with DirecTV, the *Houston Chronicle *quotes<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/5747397.html>Oncor spokesman Chris Schein as confirming that Oncor will use the network
> only for monitoring the power grid: "Our business is delivering electricity,
> not being an Internet provider or a television provider."
>
> ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, observed that "This
> announcement underscores yet again that the Bush Administration made a
> fundamental error in judgment when it erroneously identified BPL as a
> potential 'third wire' delivering broadband to consumers. As the Court of
> Appeals for the DC Circuit determined<http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/04/25/10064/?nc=1>last week, the FCC then compounded the error by 'cherry-picking' from its
> staff studies and ignoring other studies that proved the FCC was
> underestimating the interference potential of BPL systems. One can only hope
> that this latest marketplace failure of BPL will send a clear message that
> the answer to expanding consumer broadband access lies with other, more
> promising technologies that do not have such a potential to pollute the
> radio spectrum."
>
> ARRL Laboratory Manager Ed Hare, W1RFI, was quick to point out that BPL was
> not going away in Dallas. According to Oncor Vice President Jim Greer, Oncor
> will use the BPL network to spot grid problems to detect large power outages
> before they affect customers. Oncor will not offer Internet service through
> the system as Current had originally planned when they built it.
>
> The ARRL has no issues with BPL as long as it does not cause harmful
> interference to the amateur bands. Current's Dallas system is a good example
> of that, Hare said, as it is "notched" so as not to interfere with the
> Amateur Radio Service: "The Current system in Dallas is probably not causing
> interference to ham radio. Their equipment doesn't use the ham bands. It is
> also quiet except when in use. For meter reading and other utility
> applications, nearby modems may make the occasional short burst of noise,
> but not the cacophony of sound we hear with some other systems. You would
> probably be able to tell that BPL is there if you tune outside the ham
> bands. From an EMC perspective, what is needed now to complete this progress
> are regulations and standards that match BPL's most successful models."
>
> DirecTV customers who get Internet service through Current's network will
> probably lose service when the deal goes through. "Oncor is not in the
> telecommunications business, and it has no plans to get into the
> telecommunications business," said Schein.
>
> Dallas and Houston are the only metropolitan areas in Texas with BPL. In
> the past, the City of Austin looked at incorporating a BPL system in their
> community, but decided not to do so. In a report<http://p1k.arrl.org/%7Eehare/bpl/coaae_BPL_Final_Report.pdf>on how the BPL trial it undertook worked for them, the City of Austin
> summarized its reasons for that decision.
>
> --
> CT2HIV
> José A. Proença
> IM58KP
>
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