In April last year, in response to proposals from the European Commission, we had a small debate on Ofcomwatch as to the viability of Broadband over Power Line (BPL). There was mixed opinion - however the majority of people thought that it wouldn’t work due to electomagnetic pulses from BPL impacting other communications systems.

Well…today…the debate has been thrown wide open again after we received this anonymous comment in response our previous post.

“Sorry to upset the woolly hat brigade, or Amateur Radio Signal Enthusiasts as I like to call them, but Broadband over Power Line (BPL) is coming your way soon. Both the EU and USA regulators have now said that BPL is too important to be derailed by legacy interests.

One of the interesting companies to look out for is connect communications. They’ve recently raise $100m+ financing from the likes of Goldman Sachs and Google and last month entered a $150m deal to bring BPL to 2 million Texans.”

Anon

So it looks as though BPL is on the way afterall. Comments?