Greg, thanks for mentioning the "45 hits." I have worked that into the final version. I've chopped out the non-BPL references. I finally managed to make contact with TIA this morning and am waiting for their response. Dave ________________________________ From: Greg Sarratt [mailto:w4ozk@arrl.org] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:46 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: NTIA's Broadband Report The report states, BPL offers the potential to leverage the nearly ubiquitous electricity infrastructure to provide broadband services to areas unserved by the more common wired and wireless technologies surveyed above. (page 26) Looking at the map I could not find a BPL test or deployment in "areas unserved by the more common wired and wireless technologies"?? Also, a search on BPL in this 60 page report, yielded 45 hits. 73, Greg Sarratt, W4OZK ________________________________ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:29 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: NTIA's Broadband Report Unless I think better of it overnight or someone talks me out of it, I intend to distribute the attached critique tomorrow. I encourage you to download the NTIA report yourself. It's at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/2008/NetworkedNationBroadbandinAmerica20 07.pdf <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/2008/NetworkedNationBroadbandinAmerica2 007.pdf> Dave <<Networked Nation critique.doc>>