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Let the war begin?!
America versus the evil FCC and money hungry electrical companies! |
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JuLiE Dxer wrote:
Let the war begin?! America versus the evil FCC and money hungry electrical companies! If, and I say if, BPL ever does get rolling and raking in the big bucks, watch for Powell and some of the other higher lawyer officials in the FCC leave for high paying jobs do nothing jobs with energy companies as their reward for pushing BPL through. |
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I'd be surprised if BPL actually started raking in
some dough for two main reasons: 1) Joe Average isn't going to think that hooking up his power line into a little "box thingy" (my non-tech relatives' term) is going to give him "instant internet", he'll think that it'll probably fry his computer at the first lightning strike or power outage. (Corollary: I'm still having a problem convincing my father that we could run an outside antenna into his house to improve his television reception safely without it becoming a target for lightning. My parents' house isn't the highest house in the area and there are plenty of trees that are higher, unlike my own abode.) 2) Phone line DSL and Broadband Cable already have a huge lead in this dept. Locally, the DSL provider eliminated the speed difference between it and Zoomtown by bumping people up to 3 Mbps. BPL would have to go much faster and/or be much cheaper before people would switch. Unless, of course, Time Warner continues to suck in terms of service.... --Mike L. "Sir Cumference" wrote in message ... JuLiE Dxer wrote: Let the war begin?! America versus the evil FCC and money hungry electrical companies! If, and I say if, BPL ever does get rolling and raking in the big bucks, watch for Powell and some of the other higher lawyer officials in the FCC leave for high paying jobs do nothing jobs with energy companies as their reward for pushing BPL through. |
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Corporate America can spy on you much, much easier through BPL. As if
data mining spy apps aren't bad enough. On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:01:36 -0400, "Michael Lawson" wrote: I'd be surprised if BPL actually started raking in some dough for two main reasons: 1) Joe Average isn't going to think that hooking up his power line into a little "box thingy" (my non-tech relatives' term) is going to give him "instant internet", he'll think that it'll probably fry his computer at the first lightning strike or power outage. (Corollary: I'm still having a problem convincing my father that we could run an outside antenna into his house to improve his television reception safely without it becoming a target for lightning. My parents' house isn't the highest house in the area and there are plenty of trees that are higher, unlike my own abode.) 2) Phone line DSL and Broadband Cable already have a huge lead in this dept. Locally, the DSL provider eliminated the speed difference between it and Zoomtown by bumping people up to 3 Mbps. BPL would have to go much faster and/or be much cheaper before people would switch. Unless, of course, Time Warner continues to suck in terms of service.... --Mike L. "Sir Cumference" wrote in message ... JuLiE Dxer wrote: Let the war begin?! America versus the evil FCC and money hungry electrical companies! If, and I say if, BPL ever does get rolling and raking in the big bucks, watch for Powell and some of the other higher lawyer officials in the FCC leave for high paying jobs do nothing jobs with energy companies as their reward for pushing BPL through. |