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Topics: Main | Archive   European Commission Promotes Broadband over Powerline Hoping to open the market to new suppliers of broadband services, the European Commission issued a recommendation designed to clarify rules on using electric power cables to carry data services. Specifically, the EC is requiring Member States to remove "any unjustified regulatory obstacles, in particular from utility companies, on the deployment of broadband power line communications systems." Power Line Communications (PLC) is a broadband access technology that uses the low and medium voltage electricity grid to transmit voice, data and video. Data is sent as a high-frequency signal piggybacked on the 50 or 60-hertz mains electricity supply. The EC estimates that several thousand customers are already being served broadband over PLC, with commercial deployments underway in Germany, Austria and Spain. http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ecomm/index_en.htm 08-Apr-05 Recent Regulatory News California Works with Sprint on First Mobile Alert System 8/25/2010 FCC's Copps & Clyburn Reclassification of Broadband 8/20/2010 U.S. Senators Raise Security Concerns about Huawei 8/20/2010 WildBlue Wins $19M Grant for Rural Satellite Broadband 8/19/2010 Congressional Leaders Warn Against Google/Verizon Pact 8/17/2010 AT&T on Net Neutrality: Wireless is Different 8/13/2010 FCC Drops Closed Door Net Neutrality Talks 8/5/2010 FCC Promotes Microwave in Wireless Backhaul. 8/5/2010 FCC Chairman Appoints Senior Advisor on Broadband 8/2/2010 New DMCA Exemptions Allow Mobile Phone Jailbreaking, Carrier Unlock 7/26/2010 Congressmen Propose Universal Service Reform Act of 2010 7/22/2010 McCain and Lieberman Propose Giving 700MHz D-Block Spectrum to First Responders 7/21/2010 FCC Finds 14-24 Million Americans Lack Access to Broadband 7/20/2010 FCC to Invest $400 /million annually in Rural Healthcare Broadband 7/15/2010 FCC Explores Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) Spectrum 7/15/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton     E-mail Newsletter Subscribe Now