[TowerTalk] BPL

[Tom]

I left a newsgroup last week because of a "Flaming War". The newsgroup had
nothing to do with BPL. It was totally off topic there and it is here. There
is a BPL newsgoup, I suggest you take your comments on BPL
there.....Please....if this keeps up I'm going to run out of
newsgroups.......Tom N4RS
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Clark <jcclark at prexar.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:38 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] BPL


> Last week, KQ2M and I had an interesting exchange of thoughts about BPL
> that set me to thinking. The "set-up" is that I live in a hollow in rural
> area, cable TV runs .7 miles from my house, I am within 18,000' of the
> phone CO and there is a WISP (wireless internet provider @ 2.4 GHz) but I
> can't "see" their nodes.
>
> The cable company won't wire our road as the density isn't great enough.
> Verizon will not allocate funds to build out DSL even though they are
> optical to the CO from Keene. I don't have a wireless access point I can
see.
>
> If the cable company, Verizon and WISP won't allocate the funds to build
> out broadband in my area, even though they already have 90% of the
> infrastructure in place, why would the power company? One of the promises
> of BPL is to bring broadband to those who can't get it now.
>
> In the past, Venture capital companies have thrown billions of dollars at
> all kinds of cockamamie ideas. Are they still?
>
> Power companies survive on providing us power and have few other revenue
> streams to develop. Would the return from offering BPL be great enough to
> justify the expenditure of millions by venture capital firms?
>
> Five years ago before the bubble burst yes. But today, frankly, I doubt
it.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> As this has gone far from towers, but started here, reply to me and I'll
> summarize for the group.
> 73, Craig Clark, K1QX
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