[RFI] BPL on NPR

[Jim Jarvis]

Not ONLY is there significant competition with greater bandwidth,
cable, DSL and satellite systems all have lower operating costs
than does BPL.  A paper on the economics of BPL shows that it will
cost $35 per drop to operate, and that it's not economical with
fewer than 5 users at each drop.  Hardly the stuff to take to the
rural populations!

As a national industrial policy, we would do better to subsidize
development and deployment of bidirectional satellite comm's
systems for rural applications.

There is a downside, however.  That BPL which IS installed will be
slow to die.  Legacy systems are usually not well supported...so
noisefloor issues will continue to be with us for some time.

Unless HF propagation causes an international incident!

N2EA
jimjarvis at ieee.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Miller [mailto:JimMiller at STL-Online.Net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:28 PM
To: david jordan; jimjarvis at ieee.org
Cc: rfi at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] BPL on NPR


three cheers - many times - hope it is so.  I am frankly burned out on all
the BPL stuff and maybe that is the way they "win".  By wearing us down.  It
is hard to keep into it with all the mostly "bad" vibes.

73, de Jim KG0KP

----- Original Message -----
From: "david jordan" <wa3gin at erols.com>
To: <jimjarvis at ieee.org>
Cc: <rfi at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [RFI] BPL on NPR


> Verizon is now laying fiber to homes in Falls Church, Arlington,
> Manassas, and other cities and counties in Virginia.  Verizon has
> already installed similar capabilities in  cities in TX and PA. The
> speed of the service is 90 times faster than cable.  BPL is dead IMHO!
>
> 73,
> dave
> wa3gin
>
> Jim Jarvis wrote:
>
> >Interesting piece on NPR this morning, talking about
> >RFI and BPL.  Dave Sumner, from the league, was interviewed,
> >as was an engineer from the FCC.
> >
> >N2EA
> >jimjarvis at ieee.org
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