PPL Corp. Scraps BPL Trial

"PPL Corporation will end its Lehigh Valley Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) market trial for residential customers on October 31, 2005, the company announced Monday." ""While our market trials indicate that BPL technology is promising, the combination of a competitive marketplace and the need for significant scale has led us to the decision not to proceed as a retail communications service provider," says company president David Kelley." BBReports has more.