Jim, The BPL database lists Duke Energy in several Zip codes in the Charlotte area. These have been small trials to evaluate different vendors. According to Ambient, they have a contract to supply hardware to Duke Energy but the news releases about it have talked about Smart Grid network management, not consumer broadband. Dave K1ZZ ________________________________ From: K8JE [mailto:K8JE@arrl.org] Sent: Sat 5/3/2008 1:23 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:16719] Headline: Broadband over power lines plan is dead in Dallas Dave, Dave, With no apparent publicity about BPL by Duke Energy (they bought Cinergy) in Cincinnati, I keep waiting for the we're-shutting-down shoe to drop here as well. Am I correct that Duke does have consumer-oriented BPL elsewhere in the corporation? Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je@arrl.org <mailto:k8je@arrl.org> ; Tel.: 513-459-0142 ARRL - The Reason Amateur Radio Is! Members - The Reason ARRL Is! ________________________________ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:25 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:16719] Headline: Broadband over power lines plan is dead in Dallas We're trying to get more information. Dave http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-current_02bus.ART... <http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-current_02bus.ART.State.Edition1.460d413.html>