There are fundamental physical issues to do with the high frequencies
needed for high speed data communications, and the fact that overhead
power wires are an excellent antennae (both for receiving
interference and transmitting these high frequency signals) which
make the whole idea impossible, as far as I can see.
I would love to be proven wrong on this, but since all I have heard
is marketing guff, I still think that for data rates much beyond a
few tens of thousands of bits per second - to be shared
presumably by hundreds of homes - power lines are not a practical
means of transferring data. This includes the data rates required
for telephony.
- Robin
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