Broadband by Power Lines Moves Forward
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FCC clears the way for more companies to offer the alternative form of Net access.
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Broadband over powerline (BPL) got a boost from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week, but even as the technology begins deployments, it&#39;s unclear how much of a fight it will put up against DSL and cable.
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The government may take steps to ensure the UK has the infrastructure necessary for super-fast broadband.
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The F.C.C. adopted rules that will enable utility companies to offer an alternative to broadband services now provided by cable and phone companies.
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New rules on broadband switching seem to have speeded up the process of moving net firms.
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ISPs say bringing broadband to rural sites doesn't deliver sufficient return on investment.
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For at least a decade, phone companies have been promising to rewire America with fiber-optic cables. Now, with a romp of regulatory victories in hand, the regional Bells say they're free to make good on that ambitious plan to bring lightning-fast Web and TV services to all the nation's homes.
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Company is developing a fiber network that will deliver TV and data to homes.
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HomePlug Alliance members show off first products based on HomePlug AV 200-mbps power-line networking standard.
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Alternative currents Sending broadband signals over electricity cable has always confused people.â¦
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EarthLink will begin providing Internet connections over Consolidated Edison&#39;s power lines in Manhattan in the next several months, following an FCC vote last week to establish new ground rules for commercial deployment of the service.
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A Philadelphia model, if successful, could spark a movement to make broadband access affordable in every municipality.
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Boston's plan to blanket the city with wireless Internet connections is set to pick up speed this month as companies jockey to play a role and a pilot WiFi project gets underway in a square-mile area of the Grove Hall neighborhood.
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In many ways, Brambleton looks like any of the new housing developments that have popped up near Dulles Airport in the past several years. Except coursing under its crisp green lawns and treeless streets is a fiber-optic network that supplies some 600 homes with Internet access at speeds once reserved for the largest corporations.
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When Scott Richards is at his home in Portland, Ore., he taps into the Internet using a broadband connection from his office about five miles away.
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Utilities view broadband over power line (BPL) services not only as an enabler of new revenue but as a benefactor of internal operations as well.
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Broadband Internet access is gradually becoming a defining  characteristic of advanced industrialized economies, and broadband take  rates have been increasing at a rapid pace across the world.