Steve Nosko wrote:

Well, When you get the mail or phone call to sell the service in your area,
stop them at the beginning and ask for the number / address / email address
for their ''adaptive interference-mitigation" department. Correspond via
(e)mail I think is preferred.

I have the feeling that the broadbanders are gonna try to sell this
using
the same lie that the phone utils are selling with respect to DSL:
someday we'll
bring service to your rural area, but we can't tell you when. They'll
use the
argument that it will benefit the rural consumer.

They'll be more interested in picking the low-hanging fruit (i.e. urban
residential, where the population density will support their investment
in installing
equipment) whereas the rural population density will be too low to make
retrofitting
the power utilies profitable. So rural customers (like me) STILL will
not be able to
get broadband service*, but the broadbanders might still get to wreck
SW reception
for everyone in town.

* yes, yes, I know we can get ISDN or satellite, but around here ISDN
is way expensive
for (2) 64kb channels, and latency through satellite is too long to
support VPN.

later,
L