BPL - Broadband via Power Lines
The technology exist to provide broadband access to everyone in the country, that currently has electricity running to their homes. We woulld need to get involved in this from the grass roots because the industry and the ISPs seem to be dragging their feet on this but I'd be willing to pay for the upgrades.
I would be willing to pay for converting my homes meter to one that could handle these connects but I would like the commons (people) to own these routes so that all homes could have always on access to the Web.
I would recommend creating a system similar to the US post office, every home that receives electricity would be default have access to this infrustructure.
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BPL is inferior to Optical Fiber. BPL won't deliver more than 1-2 megabits per second to the end user, and I think the BPL network is "bridged" (all users see all traffic to all users) which is very inefficient.
Fiber can be introduced within weeks and will provide vast speeds (up to 20 gigabits per second per wavelength, with multiple wavelengths sharing the same fiber link - and that is only today's capability.) The cost of the adapters for fiber (to convert to ethernet) will be in line with the cost of adapters for BPL. So if we're going to spend ONE DOLLAR on a technology it should be the BEST we can get.
We should call for FIBER TO THE HOME and office. Forget BPL and forget "wireless", neither can ever match what FIBER can do.
See http://communityfiber.org.
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