Re: OT: Wireless Internet

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

How extraordinary, then, that the power companies don't capitalize on
this . . . . when I was living in a three-figure town in Montana in
2005, the local, co-operative telephone company was installing
exceptionally high quality fibre-optic lines for extremely fast
internet connections - - it seems a dreadful waste of investment if
it all could have come in on the power lines. Speaking of which, why
shouldn't power lines help out with the problem of rural people who
don't have cellular access (the more so as we move to digital GSM and
away from analogue CDMA).

At 7/2/2008 06:28 PM, you wrote:
** Reply to message from flash  on Wed, 02 Jul
2008 06:19:51 +0200

The beauty of the power lines is that you'd immediately have
nearly the entire population wired -- because they *already* are
wired, and unlike phone networks, this stuff is high quality.
In rural areas, where alternate delivery methods are costly,
it's the only efficient solution. For power companies, there is
virtually zero investment and 100% profit. Because it isn't OTA
(over the air) telecommunication (except for RF leakage, which I
think is a far larger potential problem than transformers),
there should be no restrictions on frequencies or bandwidth.

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Robert Holmgren
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