Another agency regulates Internet connection via power grid
Diego Remus on September 02, 2009
On August 25, the board of the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL) approved rules for using the power grid for data, voice and image transmission and broadband Internet access via the technology of Power Lines Communications (PLC). In April, the National Telecommunications Agency had already approved the regulation of Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) technology, which allows broadband over the power grid.
The grid supplies 63.9 million customers in Brazil. What does this step mean, then, for the democratization of digital access? What does it mean for digital entrepreneurs? Read more…
