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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. ============================== 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. |
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