Top Tech News - Tech Trends - Powering Up a New Kind of Broadband

Top Tech News - Tech Trends - Powering Up a New Kind of Broadband

"In the past three months a handful of significant events have occurred: A $100 million investment in Current Communications, a Cincinnati BPL service provider, by Google and others; IBM's participation in a pilot project with CenterPoint Energy to offer BPL service to 220 homes in the Houston area; and work within the IEEE to create a standard -- called P1901 -- to define an efficient BPL channel over AC power lines. The standard is targeted for completion in early 2007.

These developments follow a ruling by the FCC designed to limit interference to other radio frequency devices. The FCC's action requires BPL providers to employ devices that can switch frequencies if they cause interference and that can be shut down remotely.
FCC commissioners also will require a national database of BPL installations for public safety agencies, amateur radio operators and others.

Taken together, these developments could help drive a compound annual growth rate in BPL revenue of 90 percent over the next seven years, according to Telecom Trends International. The market watcher says BPL revenue is expected to grow from $57 million in 2004 to $4.4 billion in 2011. "

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