Jim,
I thought I had already, but maybe that was just on the BPLandHamRadio
reflector.
I'm concerned that once the infrastructure is in place and even though
the internet portion will fail financially, that this backbone will
still be used by the utilities to provide these value-added energy
services. It would just never go away even after the inevitable
financial failure.
73, de ed -K0iL
-----Original Message-----
From: rfi-bounces@contesting.com
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:49 PM
To: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: [RFI] Benefits to power companies
One thing I don't understand is why hasn't someone brought up the
benefits
the power company is likely being promised for free or even better that
they
are being paid for the use of their lines by upstart internet companies
that
would use them to provide BPL. The freebees would be that the power
company
could use the new BPL system to read the meters and control power usage
with
the newer appliances etc and most probably this benefit would be allowed
to
them at no cost just for privilege of using their lines. There would
have
to be a significant disadvantage to overcome this cost savings(meter
readers, etc.) to cause the power utility to decide not to go ahead and
approve it.
What am I missing.
73, de Jim KG0KP
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