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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. ) |