Sunday, May 4, 2008 , Updated
Dallas-based Oncor buys networking grid from Current, scuttling possibility of Internet over power lines
Current Communications is selling off the cutting-edge system it conceived to provide Internet service over power lines to Oncor for $90 million -- which plans to shut it down.
Current formed a partnership last year with DirecTV to install "BPL", or broadband over power lines, with Dallas being the first city to get it. But Oncor said that it "is not in the telecommunications business, and it has no plans to get into the telecommunications business." Whoa, who got up on the wrong side of the bed?
DirecTV customers who were getting their Internet over Current's network -- which appear to be about 64,000 people -- will probably lose that service.
Posted by T.G.
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