INTERFERENCE FROM COMTREND/HOMEPLUG TYPE BT VISION NETWORK ADAPTERS

[G7CNF]

BT is recalling ALL the PLT adapters they supplied made by Comtrend, citing a safety issue. The recall appeared only three days after the ITU Recommendation on PLT interference maximum levels... The adapters BT are using to replace them hide the pollution until the adapters are used, Lee Talbot of BT Vision Complaints wrote, "While customers are watching video-on-demand services the adaptors will be in normal power mode and emissions will be the same as the earlier models of Comtrend adaptor."

[mikesndbs]

Its disgraceful for sure! and our governments allow this to happen in the full knowledge that it brakes many laws and regulations.

[G0IFI]

@mikesndbs Ofcom are calling here soon to find out where it's coming from.

[G0IFI]

(3 weeks later) At least, that's what they said. It's still there, and no sign of anyone from Ofcom. Time to do all the things I had to do last year when this happened, I suppose.

[G0IFI]

..5 weeks later...they are you know, they really are...

For anyone who doesn't know, here's the relevant law being broken, and which the regulator, Ofcom, is not enforcing...

EMC Directive, 89/336/EEC, states that

"apparatus shall be constructed so that the electromagnetic disturbance it generates does not exceed a level allowing radio and telecommunications equipment and other apparatus to operate as intended"

I'd say it was stopping our radios from operating as intended. Go figure.

[G0IFI]

...six weeks later..still no sign of Ofcom, and since this crap is preventing me receiving the BBC world service each time they're on, I've sent a complaint to the beeb. It seems there's really not much use in Ofcom existing any more, when it comes to their role in protecting the radio spectrum.

[G0IFI]

..oh, and I've written to my local MP too, for starters. Obviously I'm not prepared to put up with this. Would you?