Christopher Cox wrote:
If we are looking to do this without laying new cable, maybe a cellular
structured microwave wireless network would work. I thought the new
Wi-Fi was to provide for this?

Here in Israel, the Electric company is NOT allowed to sell Internet
access. Planning for the day they will, they have laid fibre optic
cables along all of their right of way. Currently they use it for
their own internal data communications.

BPL will never be approved here. It was tested and found to cause
interference. Here the IDF which is a combination of the Army,
Navy, Air Force, Civil Defense, Department of Emergency Preparedness,
Homeland Security, all rolled together takes a dim view of radio
interference.

While we are a small country, they expect to be able to maintain
communications using HF and low band VHF.

Geoff.

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