BPL Pilot Project - Services Offered

South Central Indiana REMC is working with International Broadband Electric Communications (IBEC) to help provide high-speed Internet access (broadband) to SCI members served by the Martinsville substation. The Martinsville substation serves 1,400 SCI members along 114 miles of line. Members on the Martinsville substation had no access to broadband Internet access prior to our pilot project.

This project is one of the first of its kind in the United States. This project is a market pilot. If this market pilot proves to be a financially viable model offering good, reliable broadband service, we will make plans to extend broadband over power lines (BPL) to other areas of our service territory in the future. A decision on system-wide deployment of broadband should be made sometime in 2008.

Click here to view a log file showing progress being made on the project.

Click here for a list of Frequently Asked Questions.

With the completion of the BPL pilot project, rural homes and businesses can access the Internet at speeds equal to or faster than DSL, and up to 50 times faster than dial up!

“Plug & Play” your way to the Internet:

• You are always “ON” high speed Internet access at your home/business through your electrical outlets.
• Upload and download at the same access speeds with our Ethernet plug & play modem.
• Local area networking from most standard 110-Volt power outlet.
• Faster speeds at lower cost than other broadband services.
• No need for dial up or adding additional in-home/business wiring.
• Doesn’t tie up phone lines; no need for a second phone line.

South Central Indiana REMC will be offering the following Internet broadband services during the market pilot:

Monthly Recurring Rate of $29.95 includes:

• 256kbps maximum download/upload speed
• $99 Activation/Setup Fee (fee includes a BPL modem)
• Up to five email accounts per household
• 25 MB of web page space for personal use
• Web Mail Access, so you can access your email from anywhere
• 10 Hours Nationwide Backup or Travel Dial-up Service
  (billing at 10¢/minute thereafter)
• Anti-spam and Anti-virus Protection
• Account Self-Administration
• 24x7x365 Priority Technical Support (1-888-IBEC BPL (1-888-423-2275))

Monthly Recurring rate of $69.95 includes:

• 256kbps maximum download/upload speed
• $99 Activation/Setup Fee (fee includes a BPL modem)
• Up to ten POP3 email accounts for business use
• Newsgroup feeds
• Level 1 web hosting
• Anti-spam and Anti-virus Protection
• Account self-administration
• 24x7x365 Priority Technical Support (1-888-IBEC BPL (1-888-423-2275))

If you have any BPL questions, please address them to Greg McKelfresh