FCC's Duplicity On BPL Revealed

eldavojohn writes "Ars has a summary of the curious events surrounding the death of broadband over power lines (BPL). We've discussed BPL's trials and advances here many times. The Federal Communications Commission's go-ahead was halted last year by a federal court, after a suit by the American Radio Relay League over claims of unacceptable radio interference from BPL. The DC Court of Appeals judge noted, 'There is little doubt that the [FCC] deliberately attempted to exclude from the record evidence adverse to its position.' The ARRL's FOIA request to obtain non-redacted documents finally bore fruit under the Obama administrations more open FOIA guidelines. The ARRL's preliminary analysis of the released documents point out a few critical areas where the FCC redacted data that is clearly adverse to the claims of BPL proponents. By rights, this ought to lay BPL to rest once and for all." A story at Broadband Reports notes that BPL is dying on its own, as most of the vendors who had been testing it "have since moved on to promote smart electrical grid functionality."

Re:Smart Meters, not Internet Service was Behind B

[TinBromide]

PS, porn from the power company, that is both shocking and electrifying... I'm sure I'm going to catch some static from that, but I couldn't care watt happens to my current karma because of these charged puns.

Re:FCC redacted data adverse to BPL

[ColdWetDog]

Imagine what your country would be like if the RIAA were in charge of running the roads.

I'm sure they would damn well shut down those "performances" of 120 dB thuds coming out of cars driven by dazed and deaf teenagers. I'd cut them a significant degree of slack for that alone.

Now, quit driving your Rice Krispy or whatever on my lawn.

And the people rejoyced

[cyberbill79]

Yay. After seeing the reports on what it would do to the radio spectrum, I was worried some guy in his office somewhere would just stamp the 'OK' on it. Thank you ARRL and all involved. Maybe I should renew my membership now... meh.

Re:the real issue is the frequencies in use

[drinkypoo]

That's an urban legend. The Mythbusters tried it and were able to steal a whooping eight millivolts.

That's because they are IDIOTS who do not understand TIME CUBE. Only with a perfect understanding IMPOSSIBLE in in their SINGLE DAY SLAVE UNREALITY will this WORK.

I wonder if the time cube guy comes from the same planet as Dr. Bronner.

Re:Smart Meters, not Internet Service was Behind B

[dkleinsc]

I actually don't expect much resistance to the puns, but I'd think that sort of thing should be confined to your own ohm.

Re:Smart Meters, not Internet Service was Behind B

[Captain Sarcastic]

You must have been a graduate of the University of Coulombia!

(Re-volting, isn't it?)