It may work, but I question how well. One reason for granting permission is
to extend internet to rural areas that can't be served by conventinal means.
This Summer may prove whether it will be feasible or not. If the energy grid
goes down, no one will be surfing on power lines. There is concern about the
stability of the power grid and its vulnerability to terrorists and wackos.
I question surfers' personal safety and security using a power line setup. I
already have a great deal of interefernce all up and down the bands from
some sort of constant computer signal in the area - power line transmission
does not turn me on. It seems like recycling old rickety infrastucture to
use new technology whose needs are not going to be well met by a means of
transmission that is insecure and unreliable. Beside that, increasing the
traffic on circuits already maxed out by spam and hackers is going to do
nothing good to existing users of the internet. The Service Providers
already lack sufficient bandwidth, and increasing traffic will not improve
service if the providers cannot provide enough servers and secure enough
transmission lines. To crash a program or a computer it is only necessary to
gable enough ones and zeros - maybe even just one.

"Keith" wrote in message
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Broadband over Power Lines has been approved for a NPRM by the full 5
commissioners of the FCC. What this means for all short wave listeners
is that once BPL is deployed a SWL is not protected by any
interference caused by BPL transmissions. SWL's use part 15 devices and
most accept any interference.
If BPL interfered with local Radio or TV broadcast then the
licensee of those stations could complain, however I doubt
if any SWL in America will be able to get a international
broadcaster to complain to a utility company about BPL interference.
Basically this could lead to the death of shortwave listening and
ham radio is equally threatened.
Ham radio and CB operators will face irate neighbors
who have their BPL Internet connection interfered with by
transmissions. I can easily see enraged neighbors calling
their congress person complaining about the 'CBer' wiping
out all the Internet connections in their neighborhoods
and congress quickly passing a law placing the burden on
the Ham Radio and CB Operator not to interfere with Internet BPL.
The FCC has allowed the beginning of the end of HF operation
by allowing BPL to use HF frequencies.

IMHO

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