US House Okays Telecoms Bill with BPL Study Language Intact

摘要

On a 321 to 101 vote, the US House of Representatives on June 8 passed the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006, HR 5252, leaving intact language that would require the FCC to study the interference potential of BPL systems. US Rep Mike Ross, WD5DVR (D-AR), one of two radio amateurs in Congress, sponsored the BPL study requirement, "Study of Interference Potential of Broadband over Power Line Systems," contained in Title V, Section 502 of the complex bill. HR 5252 has gone to the US Senate, where a separate — and very different — telecoms bill, the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (S 2686) was still in committee at press time.