Some time ago they posted an RFC (Request for Comments) about an issue called BPL - Broadband over Power Lines. This is your Internet connection coming to you via the electrical power lines / grid. Technically proven to work. The problem is that when they start these transmissions it will cause major interference on other frequencies.
My concern is the radio - Amateur Radio (Ham) - frequencies. It will be a significant problem.
Other electronic devices will be affected as well. Read the labels on your electronic gadgets some time - the part about "must accept all interference".
The troubling part about the FCC on this issue was this: they did not ask for comments on whether or not people thought this would be a problem, they simply stated, how do we best implement this?
Their minds are already made up. The communications industry has obviously paid the right people the right amount of bribe money.
Amateur Radio communications will take a big hit on this. Emergency communications provided by Amateur Radio capability will take a big hit.
We all lose.
LVM
I don't understand how they can let this go through. If it's going to interfere with ham frequencies, it's going to interfere with all HF frequencies, is it not? (I just got my license a money ago, so I haven't been paying too much attention to this issue yet.)