Broadband via power lines

CNET reports that Broadband powerline service gains backers:

Current Communications Group and Cinergy Broadband, a subsidiary of a Midwestern utility with the same name, announced on Tuesday one of the first large-scale rollouts of broadband over power line (BPL) technology in the United States. The service promises lower prices and more convenience by allowing consumers to access the Internet simply by plugging into an electrical outlet in their house.

This makes the regulaitons forcing RBOCs to share their network facilities (forced open access) with would-be competitors all the more silly. It's time to do away with those regs.