Broadband over Power Line

ALSO CALLED: BPL, Broadband-over-Powerline, Broadband over Powerline, PLC, Powerline Communications, Broadband over Power Lines, Powerline Technology, PLT, Power-line Communications, and Broadband
DEFINITION: Broadband over Power Line (BPL) is a technology that allows Internet data to be transmitted over utility power lines. (BPL is also sometimes called Power-line Communications or PLC.) In order to make use of BPL, subscribers use neither a phone, cable or a satellite connection. Instead, a subscriber  … 
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BROADBAND OVER POWER LINE DEFINITION (continued): …  installs a modem that plugs into an ordinary wall outlet and pays a subscription fee similar to those paid for other types of Internet service.

BPL works by modulating high-frequency radio waves with the digital signals from the Internet. These radio waves are fed into the utility grid at specific points. They travel along the wires and pass through the utility transformers to subscribers' homes and businesses. Little, if any, modification is necessary to the utility grid to allow transmission … 
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