[CW] FCC's Attitude toward BPL!

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Attention All Amateurs...
 ARRL Rebukes FCC Commissioner's BPL-Related "Broadband Nirvana" Remarks
(Sep 25, 2003) -- The ARRL has strongly objected to FCC Commissioner
Kathleen Q. Abernathy's suggestion that Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
technology will contribute to what she described as "broadband Nirvana."
Addressing the United Powerline Council's annual conference September 22 in
Arlington, Virginia, Abernathy expressed unabashed enthusiasm for BPL and
recommended a combination of regulatory restraint and the elimination or
substantial modification of existing rules as steps along the "path to
Enlightenment." In a terse response faxed today on behalf of the League's
155,000 members, ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, asserted
that Abernathy overlooked some significant issues in her Nirvana analogy.


YOU CAN EMAIL MISS ABERNATHY AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS AND I URGE EVERYONE TO
DO SO.

kabernat@fcc.gov <kabernat@fcc.gov>



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