[Premium-Rx] BPLReport Predicts Rapid Growth For BPL-Access

[Bill Levy]

Gents,

As Mac said DELETE is an option!

The other thing to consider is that at the current moment in time we find 
ourselves watchin the battle between cable and dsl accelerating. The phone 
co's want to deliver movies, internet and the cable companies want to 
deliver telephone, internet and movies. BPL is only talking about internet 
w/out movies or phone service.

The last mile, the most expensive part of providing service be it phone, tv 
or net, is finally falling under the sword. There are now more Americans on 
broadband than dialup.

In the remote location where I live in the summer, coal cattle and cowboy 
country in NW Colorado the local electric cooperative is looking toward 
turning microwave TV repeaters into WIMAX repeaters to serve a small valley 
community. WIMAX is a big, cheaper, wideband alternative to BPL and I think 
as it becomes more widely adapted ( It has Intel among other small boys 
pushing hard) we shall see that it is also more economical for installs. BPL 
is very hardware intensive. One has to bypass every pole transformer and 
isolate 14K volts from the net feed. Perhaps thats something, 14KV I would 
like on my Plate Supply but not in my computer.

73, Bill N2WL