[LINK] BPL RIP - Manassas network shut down

[Robin Whittle]

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100409/0826178949.shtml

  Nation's First Major Broadband Over Powerline Deployment Shuts Down

  from the next-time-listen-to-the-engineers dept


We have discussed BPL in the past, such as:

  http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2004-November/059443.html

Since its inception, it has been going nowhere, slowly.  Even if it
had no problems with interference, powerlines are a terrible medium
for carrying signals modulated to carry data.

  - Robin