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BPL in Deep Politics
by Andrew McCaskey
Anything Else New in BPL or in Washington ?
When the American Radio Relay League was successful in obtaining the complete non-redacted version of the FCC’s study of Broadband over Powerlines, something folded up like a cheap suit. We should not be surprised when the intersection of business, technology and politics has billions of dollars at stake that the fight gets dirty.
In short, the Federal Communications Commission bias in favor of Broadband over Power Line technology (BPL) as the “third pipe” in to American homes for broadband, providing competition to the phone company DSL and cable company. For mostly political reasons – the FCC has waged a campaign for years that effectively provided a thumb on the scales whenever the technology came up for review or was weighed on the merits, technically.
The non-redacted versions seem to show a blatant effort to remove material in the original report that did not support the desired conclusion, and in some cases directly altered the meaning of a sentence into a neutral or supporting reading. Inconvenient tables were simply left out, appearing as whitespace on the printed copies, and some Powerpoints had everything missing except for the title.
Along with the Inspector, we are shocked, just shocked. But who are the usual suspects to be rounded up ? I am thinking that the cable and telco lobbyists were instrumental in keeping the BPL train moving forward. Nothing like having a competitor with a congenital heart defect. So you want to help them in the qualifying laps.
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