Re: OT: Wireless Internet

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
> In rural communities, I'd like to see high-speed Internet
> delivered over the power lines. Plug some sort of modem into an
> electric wall outlet, and you're online. They tested this in
> Korea with several MILLION electric power customers, and it
> worked.
Way to go! as they used to say. But 1) I bet Korea's power lines
are a lot newer than those in parts of the USA (some of which
have been here since Edison, just as my phone lines have been
since AG Bell); and 2) the telcos and the cable cos. will never
let it happen. It would threaten their duopoly. (Hereabouts, you
cannot get cable Internet unless you also take cable TV! Outrageous.)

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Patricia M. Godfrey
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