William wrote:
If the Access BPL system does not radiate incidental RF beyond
FCC regulations, the FCC is powerless to do anything about an
Access BPL system.


They assume that it always will, thus the FCC can and will shut it down.

The FCC will *not* completely shut it down;
there's too much money involved.
Engineering standards, reality,
"truth, justice and the American Way" don't even come into it.
Remember that, in Washington,
"money makes the world go 'round" and bullsh*t lubricates the gears.
They will just re-write the regulations to accommodate BPL, then
let it die of natural causes after their political contributors
have squeezed as much money out of foolish investors as possible.
That sounds OK, except for one problem: the power companies will use
the new regulations to dismiss complaints about their
continuing power line noise caused by shoddy line work.
The power companies get a "two-fer" (sucker money from BPL
and relief from the FCC hassling them over line noise),
and the pols get bigger contribution checks.
Everyone wins, except us.