[RFI] BPL - "no business case . . ."

[Roger Harrison]

BPL BUSINESS CASE A STILLBIRTH - INDUSTRY ANALYSTS

The US-based TechNewsWorld website ran a followup story to the FCC's 
15th October announcement on rules for broadband over powerline.

The story carries quotes from two of the world's heavyweight industry 
analyst  firms, Meta Group and Frost & Sullivan. Try these for size:

Meta Group senior analyst David Willis said although the FCC initiative 
to breed more competition into the U.S. broadband market may have its 
merits, the power line broadband effort is unlikely to do so. "It's hard 
to make a business case," Willis told TechNewsWorld.

Frost & Sullivan industry analyst Imran Khan told TechNewsWorld . . . 
"They could maybe expand the [broadband] capabilities in rural markets, 
but they're not big enough to make it worthwhile," Khan said.

Both Willis and Khan said that broader, faster wireless broadband 
technologies are much more likely than BPL to serve the market segments 
that cable and DSL currently do not reach.

See "FCC Tries To Jolt Life into Power Line Broadband" at:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/37378.html

Roger Harrison VK2ZRH