[K3PZN-List] Great Article on BPL

[Douglas J. Kearney]

Interference questions dog broadband over power lines

 

By Grant Gross

IDG News Service, 01/07/04

 

WASHINGTON - Ham radio operators and at least one federal agency contend
that broadband over power lines interferes with theirradio signals, and if
the radio operators have their way, the emerging technology that could offer
Internet users anotherbroadband service choice might not get off the ground
in the U.S.

 

The Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), a national ham radio association, and
the Federal Emergency Management Agency are amongthe organizations that have
raised concerns with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over
possible short-wave radiointerference caused by broadband over power lines,
often called BPL.

 

Companies experimenting with BPL, which uses traditional power lines to
transmit data over the Internet, have promoted itas an inexpensive-to-deploy
alternative to cable-modem or DSL services.

 

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Read the entire article at
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0107interquest.html

 

Copyright 2003 Network World, Inc. All rights reserved



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