Internet through electrical outlets?!
Over at Wired News they talk have a story titled: Net Over Power Lines Gets FCC Nod
The United States is one step closer to jumping onto the internet through its electrical outlets.
The Federal Communications Commission has reaffirmed its intention to allow the implementation of broadband-over-power-line, or BPL, technology. It adopted a new announcement by Governor Pataki last week that $2.5 million is now available in grants for building internet infrastucture.
I think this will definitely increase adoption rates in the U.S. for broadband, everywhere year more and more of us are on the net in some fashion or another. What better way of getting on then using something you are very familiar with? Now the problem lies in will it be the electrical companies that oversee and sell to resellers? Then what will happen once they get into the business themselves and cut their prices insane amounts to where resellers can’t survive? Same thing that happened with DSL… Fun stuff.. Im very curious to see how this all plays out.