In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:

"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Steve
Robeson K4CAP) writes:

Subject: BPL - UPLC -Repeat the lie three times and claim it for
truth
From: "John Anderson"
Date: 6/19/2004 7:52 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id: qd5Bc.119983$3x.87399@attbi_s54


"N2EY" wrote in message
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I think/hope what will really kill BPL is economics. It simply won't
be
able to compete with DSL, cable and other technologies.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Bush appointed Powell, lets boot Bush, replace him with anyone who will
work
for the people, not the rich corporations!

And replace him with who? John Kerry?

Why not?


Very simple reason why not. According to liberals, cheap internet access
(remember it was Gore who "invented the internet" according to his own
statements)

Whoa, hold it right there!

Show us where Algore actually claimed to have "invented the internet".

What he *did* claim, and rightfully so, is to have had a role in enacting the
legislation that made it possible. The record shows that to be a valid claim.

is a right so Kerry could be expected to push BPL even harder
than Bush.

OTOH, the "liberals" (a term never well defined) are big on environmental
protection, resource conservation and pollution reduction. Since BPL pollutes
the RF spectrum (a limited natural resource), it makes sense they would be
*against* BPL.

After all the government should decide what is best for everyone
and amateurs are too small a minority to watch out for.

Isn't a major role of government that of protecting the minority?

Economic reality be
damned as far as the liberals are concerned.

Really?

What's the economic reality of BPL?

At least the "rich
corporations" will, if BPL is not economical, kill it instead of sinking
money into it. After all they want to stay rich.

Is that how the oil industry works? Or the auto industry?

To really make any inroads in the market, BPL will need to be as cheap as
dialup and as fast and reliable as cable modem. I find it hard to believe
this combination will happen.

Me too.

It also needs to be compatible. Take your DSL system anywhere in the US, and
the hardware still works. That's not true of BPL.

The investment is too large. Those who are
willing to pay the price for high speed access have already switched to DSL
or cable, etc. Even they are fighting to get people to leave dialup but it
is the price that people generally put ahead of speed.

All true. In addition, the areas served by those nonspectrumpolluting
technologies keeps growing and growing. Here in Radnor, PA, we can get dialup,
DSL and/or cable service - not to mention satellite.

Then there's the whole issue of wireless access.

73 de Jim, N2EY