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How a ‘Once in a Century’ Broadband Investment Plan Could Go Wrong
Starting next week, California residents have 30 days to challenge maps that will determine how $1.8 billion is distributed to increase internet access
Push for broadband access to all communities in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Advocates from different California organizations met on Wednesday to discuss making broadband available across the state.
PRESS RELEASE: The State Threatens to Redline California’s Least Connected Communities in Multi-Billion Dollar Broadband Infrastructure Projects
Digital equity advocates came together at a California Broadband Council meeting to voice their concerns about the projects’ reliance on bad data to make critical funding decisions
Editorial: Newsom throws South L.A. under the broadband bus
More than two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved what was then the nation’s largest-ever investment in public broadband…
Editorial: Newsom plan to bridge digital divide becoming a boondoggle
Administration, Public Utilities Commission turning COVID-era promise into reckless spending of billions of dollars
State’s broadband plan could leave out one of its least connected communities: East Oakland
Digital equity advocates say California’s downsized internet infrastructure plan will disenfranchise historically redlined East Oakland and South Central Los Angeles…
“Good old-fashioned redlining”: Why was Oakland cut out of state plan for high-speed internet?
Federal relief approved to improve access, but funds to city have been cut by more than half…