This may be a hot button for some time to come, but the reality is that BPL
is not going to offer the rural areas service any more than DSL. You need a
substantial number of subscribers in a given area to make something like
broadband "commercially viable".


If you get enough customers in some small rural town to
make it pay, thing is that all those customers are going to
have to split whatever bandwidth BPL over one set of power
wires (the 3 phase around 25KV distribution wires on the
poles running into town) all among them. Say a hundred
customers downloading mp3s at the same time. Dial up will
look better....