On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:47:13 GMT, Steven R. Adell - KF2TI quoted CNET:

AT&T and Pacific Gas and Electric demonstrated Wednesday how broadband
can be sent over power lines, an emerging alternative to cable and DSL
for delivering high-speed Internet access.

As part of the demonstration, at AT&T Labs in Menlo Park, Calif., the
companies created a connection operating at 500 kilobits per second to 3
megabits per second over a power grid.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell attended the
demonstration.

Wanna bet that Mister Powell did not deign to stop in to the FCC
Field Office out there to meet or support the staff and that none of
the three interference-chasing engineers assigned to that office
were invited to the demonstration?

Selling BPL is not a technical problem, it's a political problem.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane