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BPL will provide consumers nationwide with high-speed Internet access through their existing electrical outlets. BPL also assists utilities with critical intelligence to enhance the security,reliability and efficiency of the U.S. electric power grid.

“This is one of the defining moments for the widespread adoption of broadband by Americans, and a great testament to the FCC’s leadership and to the cooperation and support of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Today’s FCC decision is as significant as the Commission’s decision a decade ago to foster competition in the mobile telephone and video programming businesses, through PCS and direct broadcast satellite licensing,” said William Berkman, Chairman of CURRENT Communications Group, a BPL service operator in the residential and small business markets. “The fact is that BPL does ‘double duty,’ enabling two critical infrastructure improvements – it gives our nation a viable new broadband alternative and it enables significant modernization of the nation’s electric distribution system.”  Read more...