[opendtv] The FCC's Broadband over Power Line Inquiry: Considering Radio-Frequency Interference Rules of the Road for the Third High-Speed Communications Wire
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:15:35 -0400
The FCC's Broadband over Power Line Inquiry: Considering
Radio-Frequency Interference Rules of the Road for the Third
High-Speed Communications Wire
by David Tobenkin & Newton Howard
8 Va. J.L. & Tech. 10 (2003)
This article examines the Federal Communications Commission's
Broadband Over Power Line (BPL) Systems Notice of Inquiry proceeding,
including the issues raised by the Commission with respect to the
nature of this new high-speed Internet communications medium and the
radio frequency interference and technical challenges it poses. Also
analyzed are the filings of the numerous commenters in this
proceeding. The article contends that more testing is needed to gauge
precisely the degree of harmful interference posed by BPL, but that
the Commission should allow deployment of BPL under the Commission's
existing Part 15 rules for Carrier Current Systems operating on an
unlicensed basis. Such BPL systems should, however, be subjected to
careful interference monitoring and, if serious interference with
licensed spectrum users results, the Commission should impose
remedies such as confinement of BPL signals within certain ranges of
the spectrum and notching of BPL signals within bands in which there
are impacted licensed users. The Commission may also wish to
segregate its regulatory treatment of BPL: The Commission may, on the
one hand, wish to take actions to encourage deployment of the energy
utility systems applications that are unique to BPL, while, on the
other, choose not to provide advantages to BPL systems that merely
provide consumer high-speed access to the Internet, given the robust
competition for such high-speed access already present, or soon to
develop, in many markets.
...
http://www.vjolt.net/vol8/issue3/v8i3_a10-Tobenkin.pdf
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