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AT&T ready to trial latest attempt at pumping internet over power lines

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Re: Stupid

Wrong. This isn't traveling on the power lines at all, it is traveling "alongside" them. They are merely a waveguide - and the only reason they're using power lines for this is because they're the highest wire on the pole. If phone lines were the highest they'd be using those - and it wouldn't interfere with the phone calls or DSL those phone lines were carrying.

The powerline adapters you can buy have as much to do with this technology as dial up modems do with fiber optics.

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