[X-spurt]

I am told that my electric supplier, TXU Luminate, has BOP on now, but only to read our rural meters and probably to “turn you off or brown” via the “Smart Meter” they and nobama are trying to sell us.

[Hawthorn]

>> I am told that my electric supplier, TXU Luminate, has BOP on now, but only to read our rural meters and probably to “turn you off or brown” <<

If that’s all they’re doing, then I’d say it’s “narrowband” rather than broadband. And they’re probably down in the LW frequencies, which for many years the power companies have used for telemetry. In other words, nothing new.

(In fact, it’s probably been opposition from the power companies that has prevented LW broadcasting in the USA.)