ARLA/CLUSTER: Os verdadeiros custos da internet barata por PLC

[Carlos Pinheiro]

E o mais engraçado é que a razão do "shut off" é puramente comercial, nada
tem a ver com interferências...

CT1PT
CP

2009/11/19 Carlos Mourato <radiofarol  gmail.com>

> E os numeros não enganam.
>
>
>  City decides to shut off Internet service by June 30
> By Keith Walker <kwalker  manassasjm.com>
> Published: November 18, 2009
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> If Manassas Councilman Jonathan L. Way had his druthers, he'd shut down the
> city's low-cost Internet service as soon as possible, because it's costing
> the city more than $100,000 a month.
>
> In 2003, the city introduced broadband over power lines, or BPL, to bring
> low-cost Internet access to city residents. Since then, the city has spent
> $1.6 million on the project, Way said.
>
> The service has continued to shed customers while expenses have continued
> to rise.
>
> "I think we need to get out of BPL forthwith," Way said Tuesday at a city
> council special meeting. "It's not a good product. The whole business is not
> financially sound and it never has been."
>
> Forecasts by the utilities commission show that the service is likely to
> lose between $100,771 and $171,353, or an average of $151,825 each year over
> the next nine years.
>
> Way said that's money the city could ill afford to lose. He said the
> service "should go and be over and done with."
>
> Some of the initial cost of bringing the service to city residents and
> businesses included money to lay the infrastructure to include Internet
> signal over the power lines, said Michael C. Moon, the city's director of
> utilities.
>
> With the $24.95-a-month service averaging fewer than 600 residential
> customers and roughly 50 business customers a month, there was not enough
> money coming in for salaries, maintenance and recouping the initial
> investment.
>
> "It's costing a little more to maintain the system than we projected in the
> budget," Moon said. "The original projections were that the customer base
> would be double this."
>
> Councilman Mark Wolfe agreed with Way and wanted the shutdown of the system
> to be completed by the end of the fiscal year on June 30.
>
> Councilmen Marc T. Aveni and Andrew L. "Andy" Harrover want to follow the
> City of Manassas Utility Commission's proposal that the decision to shut
> down the system be completed by the end of the fiscal year.
>
> Harrover and Aveni want to let the service die a natural death as it goes
> through the budget process and ultimately gets cut from the budget.
>
> Way said that waiting until the end of the fiscal year to make the decision
> would cost more money because the city couldn't just turn it off the service
> overnight once the decision is made.
>
> Manassas Bureau Chief Keith Walker can be reached at 703-369-6751.
>
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> Best 73 from: regards from: CT4RK Carlos Mourato - Sines - Portugal
>
> Save the Radio Spectrum! Eliminate Broadband over Power Line. Salve o
> espectro electromagnético!. Não use a rede electrica para transmitir dados.
> Os "homeplugs power line" e a tecnologia "power line" causa fortes
> interferencias noutro serviços sem voce se aperceber. Diga não à tecnologia
> power line. Proteja o ambiente
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