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Rural telcos can bust a move on big incumbents, says CPUC commissioner
Typically, telephone companies do not intrude on each other’s territory, but that’s a matter of custom, not a fundamental law of the universe. Commissioner Catherine Sandoval says that breaking down...
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The more broadband, the more interest in more broadband
Click to download the presentation. One of the thousand or so communities, companies, organisations and private individuals that’s expressed interest in participating in the FCC’s rural broadband...
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Filling more holes in California’s broadband consortia map
Click for a bigger version. Two more regional broadband consortia are in the pipeline for coastal California. The California Public Utilities Commission has a draft resolution in front of it that...
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CPUC tells regional consortia to build broadband infrastructure
A foot of fiber is worth a mile of talk. The California Public Utilities Commission has, again, made it clear that the top spending priority of the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) is better...
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Point and counterpoint for new broadband subsidy rules in California
Eight rebuttals were filed yesterday, in response to the 14 opening comments on a draft of new rules for infrastructure construction subsidies from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF). Three...
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CPUC not bugged by incumbent advantages, approve new broadband subsidy rules
Whether you like the rules or not – and for what it’s worth I don’t – it’s game on for the next round of broadband infrastructure construction subsidies from the California Advanced Services Fund. In...
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CPUC endorses long California broadband infrastructure priority list
Click for the full list. Included in last week’s reboot of the California Advanced Services Fund’s broadband infrastructure subsidy program was a long priority list of places where broadband...
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Digital 395 fiber draws a last mile crowd in eastern California
Faster residential and business broadband service – including gigabit-class fiber-to-the-home service in some communities – is following in the wake of the Digital 395 project, an open access middle...
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2015 a broadband breakout year for California’s central coast
Santa Cruz Tech Beat, for which I sometimes write, published its picks for top stories of 2014. It’s a good list and takes a holistic view of the local tech scene and economy. Looking ahead, I think...
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We’re deciding the future of broadband now
I was asked to moderate a panel on the future of broadband at the Eastern Sierra Connect Regional Broadband Consortium conference in Ridgecrest in January. You can download the presentation here. To...
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California legislature approves an extra $5 million for broadband consortia
Click for the big picture. Regional broadband consortia will be getting another $5 million from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF), assuming governor Jerry Brown agrees. The state senate...
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California broadband consortia try for second round of grants
Click for the big picture. Funding for the regional broadband consortia that the California Public Utilities Commission approved four years ago has either expired or soon will. For most, that’ll mean...
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Community WiFi project fades away in LA
On the shelf. A community-based WiFi access initiative that I wrote about three years ago has hit some rough waters, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times. Manchester Community Technologies...
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California broadband consortia inch forward
Urgency means different things to different people. Three regional broadband consortia have a tentative okay for operating money from the California Advanced Services Fund. The California Public...
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North coast, eastern Sierra and San Joaquin regions up for California...
That’s pretty much the speed of broadband too, in these regions.Three more regional broadband consortia projects trickled onto the California Public Utilities Commission’s agenda for next month. A...
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Broadband projects queued up for Monterey startups
Click for the presentation.Independent projects are driving broadband infrastructure upgrades on California’s central coast. Maybe not as universally or as quickly as local entrepreneurs would like,...
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More California regional broadband consortia funded
Click to see the previous boundaries.Three regional broadband consortia were approved for funding by the California Public Utilities Commission this week. That brings the total to nine, with three more...
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Broadband consortium accused of making “false reports”, CPUC wants $244,000 back
The California Public Utilities Commission began funding regional broadband development groups, AKA broadband consortia, in 2011. In rural areas, and some urban areas, the groups primarily worked on...
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Broadband consortium facing false reporting, contempt charges skids into CPUC...
For more than five years, the California Public Utilities Commission has wrangled with a consortium of five Los Angeles community organisations over a $450,000 grant that was supposed to be used to...
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