Broadband Powerline Communications News
June 1999

Prospects for using the nation's electricity network as a third telecom line into homes and businesses could get brighter in the coming months, depending on how well technology trials go for one major equipment maker.

DALLAS - Media Fusion, a new high-tech company in Dallas, promises to be the last-mile solution sought by the federal government by delivering premium-quality Internet, voice and video data to schools, households and businesses via the most extensive technological platform in existence - the electrical power grid.