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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.
Aurora Energy has decided to withdraw from a three-year-old broadband-over-powerline experiment as a result of cost pressures.
With the election looming, there does appear to be one issue that both Liberal and Labor can agree on: broadband over powerline could one day be used to get Internet access to Australia's remotest regions.
Australian telcos are seriously looking at broadband over powerline (BPL), according to vendor NEC -- but interference and regulatory issues are still haunting the technology.
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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