[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: 5.6.8

[Marianne Granoff]

Edited for interest.  FYI.

>Broadband Over Powerlines Is Dead, Dead, Dead,
>Techdirt
>For many, many years we've pointed out the reasons why
>broadband over powerlines was unlikely to succeed.
>Despite the FCC calling it the "the great broadband
>hope," many people referred to it as "the great
>broadband joke." The technology just wasn't able to
>deliver what was promised and certainly couldn't scale
>effectively. Now, as Broadband Reports points out, one
>of the big "flagship" deployments of BPL, in Dallas,
>has been sold and is going to shut down internet
>access. Instead, the buyer is just going to use it for
>monitoring the electrical grid. Given that this is
>just the latest in a long line of failures -- and that
>the technology has never worked up to the level
>promised, can we finally put to rest the idea that BPL
>is a legitimate "third pipe" for broadband?
>  http://techdirt.com/articles/20080503/2344201023.shtml
>
>
>Comcast Nominated for Having Worst ToS - People use
>the service but don't like the terms, dslreports
>A blog over at InfoWorld recently ran a challenge
>asking readers to find a company with a ToS agreement
>worse than the Dilbert.com Terms of Use reported on by
>the blog. The first nominee by the readers is Comcast.
>Although Comcast recently changed their ToS to make
>their traffic-shaping practices look more legit, they
>still have a number of provisions that concern their
>customers. It s primarily the lack of privacy that one
>has when using their service that seems to have gotten
>the company nominated for the dubious honor of Worst
>ToS. The challenge is still going on so people who
>believe that Comcast s ToS isn t the worst one out
>there may come back with a response.
> 
>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Nominated-for-Having-Worst-ToS-94116