At one point all three witnesses mentioned the potential of new forms of broadband competition, including efforts to deliver broadband over power lines (BPL).

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The meters CenterPoint is installing store billing information and upload it three times a day to nearby radio receivers that are connected to computers via broadband over power lines.

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Power companies and networking startups have spent years touting a technology called broadband-over-power lines, or BPL. In those systems, the utility sends a data signal across existing wires at a much higher frequency than electricity, so the two signals don't interfere.

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