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A Personal Account of BPL

Electrifying Ease, if Not Speed BPL is in the news lately, with the Google et al investment in Current Communications, and the announcement by Centerpoint and IBM of their BPL trial in Houston. So it is timely that a user describes his personal experience with BPL in Manassas, VA, a suburb of Washington, DC. The bottom line: like a utility, the writer found BPL slow to get going and a little frustrating to work with, but on balance, quite affordable and reliable.

In reading this article, I couldn't help but think that one answer to the series of delays in deploying BPL that the user experienced would be to complement the deployment with a wireless broadband deployment. That way, the city, utility, or third party provider could begin to offer broadband service almost immediately, and then bring in the BPL for longer-term system stability, cost reduction and added bandwidth. I'm starting to think that BPL and wireless broadband may go together like peanut butter and jelly...as an alternative to a steady diet of submarine sandwiches (DSL), hamburgers (Cable), and pizza (3G cellular)? Let's hear it for the balanced diet!

This is an enlightening perspective and I urge you to take a look.

Posted on July 12, 2005 at 09:24 AM

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