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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:33:54 GMT, Doug Smith W9WI
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That, and most of the people who are willing to pay the price for
broadband already have it.

I think that's probably a bad guess. To get DSL service, you have
to be within x amount of distance from the phone company switch.
To get cable access, you have to have cable TV......

In the area I'm in, there are thousands of homes with no DSL
availability, and no cable TV service. And since the cable TV
service in this area is so bad, people who could have cable TV
are using satellite TV instead, as are those who are outside the
cable coverage area.

So in this area there are plenty of potential customers for some
sort of broadband service. Not that BPL is the answer, or a good
idea, I just wouldn't bank on the assumption that everybody who
wants broadband already has it.......

Not to mention the fact that if there was ho market for it the
people who are pushing it/testing it probably wouldn't be doing so.

73, Jim KH2D


The power companies haven't really looked at the investment to make it
happen. They have just looked at the size of the potential market. I
recently saw an article where a financial adviser discusses this very issue.
The power companies actually propose this every few years and then find it
to be too large an investment. I hope that is true now too.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE