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  • Broadband over powerline gets boost from US

    A new initiative in the US could give broadband over powerline (BPL) a kick-start, with two US companies getting together to provide Internet connectivity through electricity cables.

  • Aurora dumps broadband over powerline

    Aurora Energy has decided to withdraw from a three-year-old broadband-over-powerline experiment as a result of cost pressures.

  • Tasmania powers up 12Mbps broadband

    Internet service provider Datafast, in partnership with Aurora Energy and hardware vendor Mitsubishi Electric, today kicked off a 12Mbps broadband over power line service in Hobart, which the company claims is the world's first large-scale commercial trial.

  • Country Energy gears up for commercial BPL trial

    NSW electricity utility Country Energy will soon follow its Tasmanian counterpart Aurora and start selling broadband Internet services over its power line infrastructure.

  • BPL, WiMax electricity smart meters coming to NSW

    NSW Premier Morris Iemma is promising an early rollout to smart electricity meters that could use broadband over powerline, WiMax or GPRS to communicate with electricity boards -- but delays are already looming over the nascent deployment.

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  • Shocking times for Aussie broadband over powerline

    It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.

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