Patent ID: 7382232

Claim:
A device for providing communications to one or more user devices and that communicates over an underground power line comprising a first and second of segment connected in series with each other via a distribution transformer and wherein said underground power line carries a power signal having a voltage greater than one thousand volts, comprising: a first coupler configured to be coupled to the first segment of the underground power line; a second coupler configured to be coupled to the second segment of the underground power line; a first amplifying circuit configured to amplify first signals received from said first coupler and to conduct said amplified first signals to said second coupler for coupling to the second segment, wherein the first signals are received from said first coupler and supplied to said second coupler without demodulation; a first modem communicatively coupled to said first coupler; and a second modem communicatively coupled to said first modem and configured to provided communications to the one or more user devices.