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FCC Commissioner ''gushes'' over BPL
FCC COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY SEES BROADBAND-OVER-
POWERLINE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF "BROADBAND NIRVANA" On September 22, 2003, FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy delivered a speech to the United PowerLine Council's Annual Conference in which she heavily promoted broadband-over-powerline ("BPL") technology. Rarely has an FCC Commissioner presented such a one-sided address, not mentioning the likelihood that BPL will cause massive interference to licensed radio services. Ms. Abernathy's entire speech (as prepared for delivery) and a summary of the response of one organization are posted at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-239079A1.doc and http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/09/25/100/?nc=1 A BBC R&D White Paper entitled, "The Effects of Power-Line Telecommunications on Broadcast Reception: Brief Trial in Crieff" is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp067.html. (CGC Communicator articles may be reproduced in any form provided they are unaltered and credit is given to the CGC Communicator and the originating authors, when named. Past issues may be viewed and searched at http://www.bext.com/_CGC/ courtesy of Bext Corporation. ) |
She needs some major mental ex-lax to clear her mind.
"David" wrote in message ... FCC COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY SEES BROADBAND-OVER- POWERLINE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF "BROADBAND NIRVANA" On September 22, 2003, FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy delivered a speech to the United PowerLine Council's Annual Conference in which she heavily promoted broadband-over-powerline ("BPL") technology. Rarely has an FCC Commissioner presented such a one-sided address, not mentioning the likelihood that BPL will cause massive interference to licensed radio services. Ms. Abernathy's entire speech (as prepared for delivery) and a summary of the response of one organization are posted at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-239079A1.doc and http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/09/25/100/?nc=1 A BBC R&D White Paper entitled, "The Effects of Power-Line Telecommunications on Broadcast Reception: Brief Trial in Crieff" is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp067.html. (CGC Communicator articles may be reproduced in any form provided they are unaltered and credit is given to the CGC Communicator and the originating authors, when named. Past issues may be viewed and searched at http://www.bext.com/_CGC/ courtesy of Bext Corporation. ) |
"David" wrote in message ... FCC COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY SEES BROADBAND-OVER- POWERLINE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF "BROADBAND NIRVANA" On September 22, 2003, FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy delivered a speech to the United PowerLine Council's Annual Conference in which she heavily promoted broadband-over-powerline ("BPL") technology. Rarely has an FCC Commissioner presented such a one-sided address, not mentioning the likelihood that BPL will cause massive interference to licensed radio services. Ms. Abernathy's entire speech (as prepared for delivery) and a summary of the response of one organization are posted at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-239079A1.doc and http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/09/25/100/?nc=1 [snip] Is broadband itself worth gushing over? Around here, broadband is supposed to be 10 times faster at maybe twice the price. On paper, broadband looks like a pretty good deal compared to two line setup in which one line is used mostly for dial-up. Still, dial-up is doing quite well. Dial-up suits me fine, at least for now. So, just what is broadband nirvana? Frank Dresser |
Ain't that the self-service robbery ? Just walk up, stuff wheel barrow loads
of money in it and go back to get some more ... |
http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/abernathy/mail.html
"helmsman" wrote in message ... David wrote: FCC COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY SEES BROADBAND-OVER- POWERLINE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF "BROADBAND NIRVANA" Anyone got her ( personal on the job) e-mail address ? ;') . 9.11.2001 Never Forget. |
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:43:12 GMT, "Frank Dresser"
wrote: So, just what is broadband nirvana? It's appeal is mostly for high graphics content websites (porn) and newsgroup binaries (porn, Software, MP3's) which BTW have all largely fueled the growth of the Internet. This is not to say broadband is its own right is a bad thing. In some areas such as Vermont, local calls are expensive. Here broadband widely apeals because it costs the same as dialup when you add in local call charges to link to the ISP. mike |
Frank Dresser wrote:
"David" wrote in message ... FCC COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY SEES BROADBAND-OVER- POWERLINE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF "BROADBAND NIRVANA" On September 22, 2003, FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy delivered a speech to the United PowerLine Council's Annual Conference in which she heavily promoted broadband-over-powerline ("BPL") technology. Rarely has an FCC Commissioner presented such a one-sided address, not mentioning the likelihood that BPL will cause massive interference to licensed radio services. Ms. Abernathy's entire speech (as prepared for delivery) and a summary of the response of one organization are posted at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-239079A1.doc and http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/09/25/100/?nc=1 [snip] Is broadband itself worth gushing over? Around here, broadband is supposed to be 10 times faster at maybe twice the price. On paper, broadband looks like a pretty good deal compared to two line setup in which one line is used mostly for dial-up. Still, dial-up is doing quite well. Dial-up suits me fine, at least for now. So, just what is broadband nirvana? Hollywood sewage at 5 times its current speed into every room of your home 24/7! Profitable yes, but desirable? It reminds me of a cartoon of a couple watching HDTV and the guy says "It's still 500 channels of trash" and the woman responds "Yeah, but look at how well it comes in!". :) |
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:39:06 -0500, tommyknocker wrote
(in message ): Frank Dresser wrote: "David" wrote in message ... FCC COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY SEES BROADBAND-OVER- POWERLINE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF "BROADBAND NIRVANA" On September 22, 2003, FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy delivered a speech to the United PowerLine Council's Annual Conference in which she heavily promoted broadband-over-powerline ("BPL") technology. Rarely has an FCC Commissioner presented such a one-sided address, not mentioning the likelihood that BPL will cause massive interference to licensed radio services. Ms. Abernathy's entire speech (as prepared for delivery) and a summary of the response of one organization are posted at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-239079A1.doc and http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/09/25/100/?nc=1 [snip] Is broadband itself worth gushing over? Around here, broadband is supposed to be 10 times faster at maybe twice the price. On paper, broadband looks like a pretty good deal compared to two line setup in which one line is used mostly for dial-up. Still, dial-up is doing quite well. Dial-up suits me fine, at least for now. So, just what is broadband nirvana? Hollywood sewage at 5 times its current speed into every room of your home 24/7! Profitable yes, but desirable? It reminds me of a cartoon of a couple watching HDTV and the guy says "It's still 500 channels of trash" and the woman responds "Yeah, but look at how well it comes in!". That's an update on: First Person: "The food here is so horrible." Second Person: "And the portions are so small." Gray Shockley ----------------------- DX-392 DX-398 RX-320 DX-399 CCradio w/RS Loop Torus Tuner (3-13 MHz) Select-A-Tenna ----------------------- Vicksburg, MS US |
"mike" wrote in message ... It's appeal is mostly for high graphics content websites (porn) and newsgroup binaries (porn, Software, MP3's) which BTW have all largely fueled the growth of the Internet. This is not to say broadband is its own right is a bad thing. In some areas such as Vermont, local calls are expensive. Here broadband widely apeals because it costs the same as dialup when you add in local call charges to link to the ISP. mike Yeah, right now, it seems broadband doesn't become really attractive until it gets price competitive with dial-up. The "Broadband Nirvana" comment reminded me of a silly article I read which claimed the high tech recession was due to old fashioned regulation holding back broadband access. Maybe regulation was holding back the manufacturers and suppliers in the broadband industry, but, as I remember, he also implied that the US economy really needed broadband somehow. He wasn't specific as to how. It just did. The FCC commissioners are taking that tone, as well. Broadband must be ten times better than dial-up because -- well, just because. And the commissioners won't be caught roadblocking the future. But right now, for lots of people, the internet works just fine with dial-up. They won't contribute ten times as much to the economy with broadband. They won't be ten times as entertained. The connection sits idle most of the time, anyway. Broadband won't be a necessity until there's something better than the usual e-mail, chat rooms and lite internet surfing people do. In a way, it looks similiar to the way most of the new UHF TV and FM radio stations struggled in the early 50s. There was a huge increase in bandwidth, but there was little extra to fill it with. People got what they wanted from their AM radios and VHF TVs. It took about 25 years before the extra bandwidth was filled. I was at the library and found a book called "SST here it comes - ready or not!" So I checked it out. Figured it would be good for a laugh, at least. Actually it was a pretty good book. The author was an avation writer who gave a good accounting of the SST debate of 1969 or so. Of course, we abandoned the American SST program, and it didn't matter much. Few travellers wanted to pay the extra price to go faster. Frank Dresser |
"-=jd=-" wrote in message 3... Dateline "rec.radio.shortwave", Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:43:12 GMT: As it appeared in message-ID# , "Frank Dresser" appears to have written the following... "David" wrote in message ... FCC COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY SEES BROADBAND-OVER- POWERLINE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF "BROADBAND NIRVANA" On September 22, 2003, FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy delivered a speech to the United PowerLine Council's Annual Conference in which she heavily promoted broadband-over-powerline ("BPL") technology. Rarely has an FCC Commissioner presented such a one-sided address, not mentioning the likelihood that BPL will cause massive interference to licensed radio services. Ms. Abernathy's entire speech (as prepared for delivery) and a summary of the response of one organization are posted at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-239079A1.doc and http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/09/25/100/?nc=1 [snip] Is broadband itself worth gushing over? Around here, broadband is supposed to be 10 times faster at maybe twice the price. On paper, broadband looks like a pretty good deal compared to two line setup in which one line is used mostly for dial-up. Still, dial-up is doing quite well. Dial-up suits me fine, at least for now. So, just what is broadband nirvana? Frank Dresser Being able to telecommute from home without your connection to a development server or database timing-out. I actually require it in order to do what I need to do. I get cable broadband access for $20/month. Normally, it's $25, but I have my own cable modem and don't pay the monthly rental fee. Last time I had dialup, $20/month would have been a competitive rate - I'm not sure what the average dial-up rate is today. I would also feel quite safe in guessing that, for the vast majority of people, dial-up would suffice if you were talking about the minimum bandwidth needed to perform the task (email, web-surfing, etc). The problem is "impatience" on the part of he general public (they want that page to open NOW!) and the desire for a more "content rich" internet experience from those pushing content as well as those pulling content. You could most likely define "content rich" as one or more of the following: - MP3 Sharing - Multimedia - Bigger/Better/Badder Ads - Porn Speaking of which, wasn't Porn attributed to having a large influence on the success of VHS over Beta? There's some interesting things that *could* be done with a decent broadband connection (like smooth, undistorted voice and video "phone calls" to family) except that broadband is never all it's cracked up to be. It does no good to have a gigabit fiber-to-the-desktop connection if somewhere between your PC and the other end is a 300 baud phone coupler... There's good and bad in most things... -=jd=- -- My Current Disposable Email: (Remove YOUR HAT to reply directly) |
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