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Broadband via power lines sparks Google interest.

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Afro Thunder

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Current Communications Group, which offers broadband Internet service over power lines, said Thursday it has received investment money from Google, Hearst and Goldman Sachs.

Although Current did not specify the amount it received from the search king, media giant and investment banker, The Wall Street Journal reported that the three companies invested roughly $100 million in the start-up. Last year, Current and Cinergy Broadband, a subsidiary of energy company Cinergy, announced that their two joint ventures had received $70 million from Cinergy, EnerTech Capital and Liberty Associated Partners.

As part of last year's announcement, Current and Cinergy Broadband said they would create one joint venture to bundle broadband and voice services for Cinergy's 1.5 million customers in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. A second joint venture would deploy broadband over power lines to smaller municipal and cooperatively owned power companies, which reach about 24 million customers across the United States.

Current said Thursday that it plans to use the new investment money to expand its broadband over power line deployments in the U.S. and overseas. EnerTech Capital and Liberty Associated, a partnership between Liberty Media and the Berkman family, also contributed to the new financing round.

"These investments provide us with both capital and operating assistance as we continue to roll out broadband-over-power-line services to provide voice, video and data services," William Berkman, chairman of Current, said in a statement.
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bionic77

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Google is obviously planning on taking over the world after they commandeer the entire internet.

Someone has to stop them before it is too late.
 
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Azure Dream

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<3 Google.

I hope BBPL reaches me soon, I'm one of those unlucky people whom DSL can't reach, supposedly, and Time Warner (local cable provider) insists there's a "Site Survey" issue, so even though several other services say I can be serviced in their online checks, when I actually go to do it, they try to set it up through Time Warner. And both times it happened (spaced over a period of time), TW never called to say it was cancelled, so I sat with no news for- urgh.

Suffice it to say that I'm tired of dial-up, but my options are limited without BBPL. (Satellite is way too expensive and slow.) So, yeah, go Google.
 
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element

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Google is really building an infostructure to take over MS. Google plan is for a client network, kinda like what MS plan for .net was, but is side tracked with cutting features from Longhorn.

Google doesn't have the legacy problems that MS has currently. And google is stealing a lot of employees that are sick of the 'man' and want to do something creative and cutting edge again.
 
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Gattsu25

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wait? BB over power lines? I knew it was possible due to the nature of data transmission, but I was always told it was an urban legend =\
 
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I don't know why google doesn't add "the google solution for adult material"

I mean, if they really want to be the kings of internet searching.......
 
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catfish said:
I don't know why google doesn't add "the google solution for adult material"

I mean, if they really want to be the kings of internet searching.......
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hobbitx

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I welcome the Googleocracy.
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Yeah, but what if it becomes a brutal googtatorship?

*continues to hide in cave with spear*
*will come out if google adds binary support for newsgroups*
 
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siamesedreamer

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Broadband over powerlines has been pumped up for years now and nothing has come of it. Its not gonna happen folks. There's just too much infrastructure to install and maintain. Just like the fiber to your house myth - that's never going to happen. Can you imagine Bellsouth digging up every front yard in your neighborhood just to install fiber that people may or may not use? Its a ridiculous approach.

The future is something called WiMax where the internet is essentially braodcast via something resembling a cell phone tower. It has a range of up to 30 miles and speeds in excess of 50 gigabits. There was an article about it in Wired several months back. Intel is putting a ton of money into the technology. It also takes us one step closer to having all forms of communications changed to VoIP format.
 
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Excelion

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maybe they should update their dying search engine instead of trying to take over the world. I've a hard time finding a search engine worse than google. But everyone use google so it must be good !
 
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Ghost

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Any kind of internet connection via powerlines isnt thesable so the simple reason that most peoples houses arent that well wired, even if you build the infrastructure to get the signals into peoples houses the signal only needs to hit a dodgy piece of wire thats been there for 50 years and poof goes half your bandwidth, people have accepted the CAT5 cables running through their houses now so theres not many people that will be keen to get their whole house rewired just for broadband.


This will be about as popular as Broadband over Satellite.
 
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