WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 85 / 356
MAR/07
The Electricity of Caracas started up in the Educative Unit Estadal Consuelo Navas Tovar, a
project BPL pilot (Broadband Power Line) which, in addition to this school, is being
developed in the Urbina and a residential set in the Cadelaria.
The Electricity of Caracas, through one of its branches, started up in an Educative Unit of
Petare, a project BPL pilot (Broadband Power Line), technology that allows to offer to a
service of access to Internet broadband by means of the mains.
The Educative Unit Estadal Consuelo Navas Tovar, is the place that was taken like
reference to present/display the BPL pilot, which, in addition to this school, is being
developed in the Urbina and a residential set in the Candelaria. Altogether, it
includes/understands the installation of 350 modems in the indicated urbanizations and will
allow the company to explore and to study the operation of the service, as well as of the
range of alternatives that will be able to be provided through this technology.
Julian Nebreda, executive president of the Electricity of Caracas, informed that “with
technology BPL the EDC will be able to take to Internet broadband and service of new
generation to the clients of their served area. The Electricity of Caracas always has been a
pioneering company in the country and with this initiative, first in its style in Venezuela, a
new project of Social Responsibility will also be being been executing that it looks for to take
the technology to zones difficult and to educative communities”.
In fact, the selected Educative Unit will as much count on service BPL in its areas of
direction and administration like in the hall computer science. For this classroom,
additionally, the EDC contributed computers and placed labelled with advice of position and
ergonomics. Also, 3 laboratories of electricity were reconditioned and messages of efficient
use of energy and security with electrical systems were placed. With these initiatives they
will be benefiting more than thousand students from the establishment.
The fundamental advantage of this technology is that it allows to have access to Internet in
any place where arrives the mains. Also, BPL handles greater speeds to those of a service
ADSL (broadband) and can get to be 4 times quicker than the plan faster than offers at the
present time in the national market. BPL is raised with a lever on the infrastructure of