"Bill Evans" wrote in message ...
Perhaps yesterday's, continuing massive power failure in the northeastern
U.S.A. and Canada will convince the power utilities that they should focus
their energies and resources on their core business, rather than entering a
new business that is already served by telephone companies, competitive
local exchange carriers (CLEC), cable television operators, satellite
services and, in some markets, broadband wireless access (BWA) carriers.

According to the August 15th Toronto Globe and Mail, "critics have been
calling for breakers to be installed throughout North America's grids for
some time, only to be told by the grid operators (power companies) that
there is no money to fund such a massive infrastructure overhaul."

Why would regulators, politicians and the power companies' shareholders be
interested in spending billions of dollars entering a new business when they
obviously have major challenges in their own backyard. Seems like time to
"stick to the knitting".

The only issue investors care about is income. They won't make any new
income by sinking capital into repairs and upgrades, they would
generate new income with BPL. Capitalism 101.


William E. Evans, P. Eng.
VE4UD

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