WiMax and 3G cellular (UMTS, etc) are better solutions for rural
connectivity than satellites. And we don't need to subsidize their
development; Intel, Verizon, Motorola, Ericcson, Microsoft, Nokia, etc. can
handle it...
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
-----Original Message-----
From: rfi-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Jim Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:38 PM
To: Jim Miller; david jordan; jimjarvis@ieee.org
Cc: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [RFI] BPL on NPR
Not ONLY is there significant competition with greater bandwidth,
cable, DSL and satellite systems all have lower operating costs
than does BPL. A paper on the economics of BPL shows that it will
cost $35 per drop to operate, and that it's not economical with
fewer than 5 users at each drop. Hardly the stuff to take to the
rural populations!
As a national industrial policy, we would do better to subsidize
development and deployment of bidirectional satellite comm's
systems for rural applications.
There is a downside, however. That BPL which IS installed will be
slow to die. Legacy systems are usually not well supported...so
noisefloor issues will continue to be with us for some time.
Unless HF propagation causes an international incident!
N2EA
jimjarvis@ieee.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Miller [mailto:JimMiller@STL-Online.Net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:28 PM
To: david jordan; jimjarvis@ieee.org
Cc: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] BPL on NPR
three cheers - many times - hope it is so. I am frankly burned out on all
the BPL stuff and maybe that is the way they "win". By wearing us down. It
is hard to keep into it with all the mostly "bad" vibes.
73, de Jim KG0KP
----- Original Message -----
From: "david jordan" <wa3gin@erols.com>
To: <jimjarvis@ieee.org>
Cc: <rfi@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [RFI] BPL on NPR
> Verizon is now laying fiber to homes in Falls Church, Arlington,
> Manassas, and other cities and counties in Virginia. Verizon has
> already installed similar capabilities in cities in TX and PA. The
> speed of the service is 90 times faster than cable. BPL is dead IMHO!
>
> 73,
> dave
> wa3gin
>
> Jim Jarvis wrote:
>
> >Interesting piece on NPR this morning, talking about
> >RFI and BPL. Dave Sumner, from the league, was interviewed,
> >as was an engineer from the FCC.
> >
> >N2EA
> >jimjarvis@ieee.org
> >
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