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The California Broadband Task Force had performed the first voluntary broadband mapping exercise in that state in 2006–2007, having learned about it when Commissioner Chong visited the ConnectKentucky broadband project in 2005. The broadband maps were then used by the CPUC to determine both "unserved areas" (defined as an area that is not ...
Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to improve Internet access in the United States. The FCC was directed to create the plan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , and unveiled its plan on March 16, 2010.
California received about $1.3 billion in funding through the program that helped about 1-in-5 households in the state. The FCC said in a release that current funding is projected to run out in ...
Sep. 3—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representatives August Pfluger (TX-11) and Debbie Dingell (MI-6) Tuesday introduced the PROTOCOL Act, which improves the mapping process for broadband funding and ...
FCC, a multi-party suit which challenged the 2017 FCC order that had reclassified ISPs as Title I information services under the Communications Act of 1934 and rolled back net neutrality provisions; this same order had denied that states had authority to override the FCC's rules related to net neutrality. [8] Mozilla v.
After years of planning a public broadband system, some low-income areas were deprioritized due to unexpected costs. Still, Gov. Gavin Newsom says he’s committed to funding the entire network.
These programs collected data used by the NTIA to refurbish a public interactive National Broadband Map that was released in February 2011. [14] The map was authorized by Congress with the 2008 Broadband Data Improvement Act [15] and was funded through the 2009 economic stimulus bill. [16]
The Biden administration is moving to blunt the loss of an expired broadband subsidy program that helped more than 23 million families afford internet access by using money from an existing ...