Frank Dinger wrote:
Mr. Berkman says his group has already had discussions about bundling its
services, and plans to offer Internet phone service and either video on
demand or videogames by the third quarter of this year. He adds that in

many

places that theoretically can get high-speed access the quality is poor.
Cinergy and Current, which tested their offering on 100 homes in the
Cincinnati area, say they will target areas where broadband connections

are

spotty and hope to sign up 20% of homes they pass.

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Wonder if there are any radio amateurs (hams) in the Cincinetti area where
the system was 'tested'
And if so ,whether they have reported any interference resulting from BPL. I
am sure ARRL will be happy to hear from them.

Let's wait and see.

Here in the UK ,it has gone quiet re PLT = Power Line Transmission (BPL).
In rural areas where telephone exhanges have not as yet been prepared for
ADSL ,people can register their interest in ADSL on the Web.
As soon as a trigger level ,set by British Telecom, has been reached ,
broadband facilities will be installed.
In my telephone area (covering a maximum of 1000 phone connections) the
trigger level is 150 ,whereas to date only 51 have
registered...................So I might enjoy broadband comms during 'after
life' ).
However the 'absence of PLT ' (a blessing) will most definitely make me
stick with ham radio.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH



OK Hams in Cincy. When you can't hear anything because the band is full
of BPL crap fire up your linears and rotate your beams toward the noise,
then call CQ all night. The BPL people will find their internet not
working because of the 'QRM' and there ain't a thing they can legally do
about it! When the customers demand their money back maybe the power
companies will call the experiment a failure.