Just the "booties"? (BTW, some is not my post, but the one answered). Not
hardly. I would believe that their ultimate goal is exactly as you say - become
the primary (if not the only) ISP. I would be willing to predict predatory
marketing and all the other ploys that could be thought up - wouldn't be the
first time such tactics were used.
And now, they have failing/aging power grid issues to deal with. Gee, one would
think they have enough on their plate, but nah, they will look for a bailout to
fix what should have been done years ago and (as you say) go for the big $$$$ in
the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
I thought it interesting the comment Ed made the other day that when he
announced
that he was going to do some testing, the system suddenly was taken down for
"maintenance" - yeah, right.
Tom - WA2BPE
N6KJ wrote:
> You don't think the power companies are content with selling BPL only
> to "people in the boonies" do you? The "we only want to serve the country
> by providing broadband to all those poor souls that don't live close to
> an urban area" mantra is just a marketing pitch used to get the FCC to allow
> deployment. I hate to say it, but it's not much different from contesters
> using the "emergency communications" mantra to justify installation of 80
> foot towers with multiple monobanders on top on small suburban lots :-) The
> minute BPL deployment is allowed, power companies are headed straight for
> the "big markets" to try to woo subscribers away from DSL and cable modems.
> They know where the real $$$'s are.
>
> BTW (and maybe Ed Hare can answer this), are the BPL test sites in suburban
> or rural areas? I may be wrong, but I'll bet they are in suburban
> areas. I'm sure the "chicken farmers of America" aren't part of this
> test bed :-)
>
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:37:07 -0400, Pete Smith wrote:
>
> >
> > At 03:00 PM 8/15/03 -0400, WA2BPE wrote:
> >
> > [ Stuff Deleted ]
> >
> > I just don't see an economic argument for BPL -- the same people who now
> > can't get DSL, or cable internet, and who don't chose to go satellite, make
> > up the hardest-to-serve, most-scattered constituency you can imagine. How
> > the power companies can think that points to a 50 percent market
> > penetration, ever, is beyond me.
> >
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