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Massive EU Backing for PLC

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The EU is puting its weight behind PLC with intiallfunding of $24,000,000 to develop an EU Wide PLC standard. Stage two will be funding for an EU wide rollout of PLC.

EU Wants To Spark Power Line Standards
Using power lines to transmit data at high speeds is one of those concepts that have been discussed for several years. Now it looks like the European Union is working to bring some focus to many disparate efforts.

Recently more than 35 European energy companies, telecommunications equipment manufacturers, consultancies and universities headed for Madrid to hammer out details of the four-year EU-sponsored project. The first phase, lasting two years, has a budget of $24.8 million and it aims to develop a uniform European PLC (power line communications) standard. "We currently have a number of proprietary systems in use around Europe, each with their strengths and weakness," said Michael Koch, a member of the initiative. "For power line communications to become a viable business, standardization is essential."

http://www.sap.info/index.php4?ACTI...rticle-289724028d29e54c79/en/articleStatistic
 
W.....T.....F..... have the eurocrats been smoking this time?!?!?!
 
You have got to give to them. They are a bunch of live wires.

I think there real aim is to get competition into the Local Loop in the EU. Most of Europe is in the same boat as the UK with the incumbent Telco dominating the market.

If they are going to spend big bucks I would prefer to see them using it to subsidies the rollout of Fibre into the local loop & ensuring that the local loop is freely available to all player on a level playing field and not as at present where the dice are loaded in the favour of BT in the UK
 
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