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Re: Google wants to be your Internet

  • From: Brandon Galbraith
  • Date: Tue Jan 23 11:26:25 2007
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On 1/22/07, Daniel Golding <[email protected]> wrote:

One interesting point - they plan to use Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology to do this. Meter monitoring is the killer app for BPL, which can then also be used for home broadband, Meter reading is one of the top costs and trickiest problems for utilities. 

- Dan

On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:

Why don't utilities strike deals with celluar providers to push data back to HQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (how many people use GPRS in the dead of night?).

-brandon