IBM years ago were controlling clocks with electric pulses across internal 240 volt lines. It's too long ago to remember the tech limits but! It's still using copper, and glass fibre I should think is beyond such limits. May be ok for small internal connection but for public access? I don't think so.
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fluff4 things have advanced. Probably the most significant development is the home plug standard. http://www.homeplug.org/home

According to that website there are 10 million broadband connections to homes (businesses?) using this technology. They certainly have an impressive list of organisations who think they can make a dollar out of it.

The problem has been the "noise" caused by the transmission of electricity along the wires. With more calcuation power in modern chips evidently the noise can be controlled. Remember too that it is only copper for the last "mile". It is fibre to the transformers which is the same as fibre to the node of Telstra.

The reduction in costs of not requiring a person to come into the house to install the connection is very significant.

So, what is special in a case of Internet?

As to an AUSTRALIAN, it is profoundly seems nothing.

Any government provides politics allowing the owing business to multiply their gescheft only:
- caring Victorian government forbidden providing special gambling promotions with newspapers, leaflets, and discounted/free food at venues at the time as a factual number of patrons decreased while particular sicko-s multiply their loss on gambling
- changes in real estate operating dealing with dummy bidding and price estimation affect the real property prices just theoretically as property ownership becomes a next privilege for a few in this country
- having no real jobs but playing statistics while policing increasing number of not being employed in generations, introduces harsher conditions for dole recipients of whom too many are much more professional and willing to work than so-called “job network assistance specialists”.

A list can be extended indefinitely and there is a scientific explanation of mere cheating, called “elasticity” that is profiting from decreasing the volumes of goods and services delivered