On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:28:56 -0400 Dee Flint wrote:
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| The article also accepts without question the idea that
| fast internet access is a necessity for all Americans and their
| communities - another Bush Administration bit of rightthink.
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| Actually this would be more of a liberal idea. It surprises me that a
| Republican administration would buy into this.

Bush has many friends who are energy company executives, board members,
and investors. He's doing his friends a favor by supporting their bad
ideas, even though in the long term, BPL is doomed to flop because it
simply cannot keep up with the coming fiber technology, or even match
what some DSL and cable/coaxial deployments are already doing.

BPL is a _waste_ of power company investment dollars, which will be
diverted away from crucially needed infrastructure updates to become
capable of handling new energy needs of the future, and to be secure
against terrorist attacks. BPL actually puts the nation at more risk
than it has now.

If power companies want to play "me too" in the information services
game, then what they should do is just trump everyone else by rolling
out fiber now in the right-of-ways they already have. They could kill
the rest of the market by deploying a gigabit fiber infrastructure.
Even Verizon's fiber offering wouldn't be close.

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