[NLRS] BPL

[Bill Evans]

The new Ka Band satellite offerings for Internet access should end most 
serious consideration of BPL in rural areas.  These services will be 
announced early in 2005 and will feature high speeds at affordable monthly 
prices  (about $35 /m for 1.5 Mbit/s downolad) using relatively low cost 
transceiving hardware.  They will be geared to competing with cable and DSL 
even in metropolitan areas, according to the industry scuttlebut up here in 
Canada.

Bill VE4UD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clare Jarvis" <jarvis at jarviscomputer.com>
To: "Larry Larson" <LLARSON42 at MN.RR.COM>; "Northern Lights" 
<NLRS at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] BPL


> Thanks Larry,
>
> The REA was good for rural areas, but I agree with you that BPL is 
> currently a technology
> who's time has not come.   The losses per mile are too great, which result
> in great RFI.  At a repeater every 300 feet under current technology and 
> at $800 per repeater,
> then the only way rural areas will get BPL is with a subsidy.   I hope it 
> doesn't come to that.
>
> Clare
> de K0NY
>
> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:20 am, Larry Larson wrote:
>> To All
>> I write 50 plus letters a year to our congressional delegation including
>> issues such as BPL.  I will quote part of a letter I just got from 
>> Senator
>> Dayton (D.Mn) concerning his view on BPL.
>> " I am committed to ensuring that broadband internet access is available
>> throughout the U.S.  As with rural postal service and telephone service 
>> of
>> the past, I believe that the federal government should develop policies 
>> to
>> secure fair and equitable access to high-speed internet services for all
>> Americans."
>> The only comment I'll make on this is I totally disagree with his view of
>> the role of federal government. Has any of the BPL tests actually been
>> conducted in a rural area?
>> Are the power companies really going to install the equipment needed for
>> BPL in areas where only two or three potential customers exist per a 
>> square
>> mile?
>> Larry N0SUO
>>
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> Mr. Clare Jarvis
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