CASF guideline for grant applications
Report to Legislature of past funding Resolution T-17143 – Application Requirements and Scoring Criteria
View ArticleEnvironmental Review – CEQA and PEA
Wisp’s considering CASF funding need to comply with CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) rules. CEQA rules come into play if a WISP is proposing the addition of towers higher than 50feet for...
View ArticleWhy Calif. was never considered for Google’s Fiber to the Home
Richard Whitt, Director/Managing Counsel, Telecom and Media Policy at Google, Inc. on the closing keynote panel of the recent 10th Annual 2011 Fiber to the Home Conference in Florida, plainly revealed...
View ArticleGoogle’s Kansas City 1Gig Project is Delayed
It appears that Google is experiencing the same pushback that many non-telco Internet Service Providers hit up against when attempting to install new state-of-the-art fiber optic networks. The...
View ArticleWill the Gold Country Broadband Consortium Deliver?
Many people received or were forwarded the invitation from the Sierra Economic Development Corporation (SED Corp) for this week’s March 29th kick-off workshop of the Gold Country Broadband Consortium,...
View ArticleComcast’s Questionable Low-Income Service
About a year ago with much fanfare, former California Public Utilities Commissioner Rachelle Chong, employed by Comcast, announced Comcast’s Internet access service for low income households in...
View ArticleWhy America’s Internet Speeds are Sub-Standard
This recent Bill Moyers interview with Susan Crawford, author of the provocative “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age”, is worth watching, especially if...
View ArticleThe Big Lie
The big telcos (telephone companies) and cable companies have become THE impediment for deployment of required ultra-fast gigabit internet access networks. As well as squashing any competition that...
View ArticleThe Battle is On for Better Internet Access in California
We’re deep in the midst of the Spiral gigabit project network design in Service Area A; all in preparation for permitting and then construction. We have also been actively working to make sure that...
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