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America’s Intentional Broadband Duopoly

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

  Michael Powell When was the last time someone offered to sell you Broadband over Power Line (BPL)? BPL was one of the FCC’s five “modes” of competitive access, and the FCC traded this flawed concept of “intermodal” competition for true open market competition. In 1996, Congress passed The Telecom Act, a major update ...