CPUC OK's Grants for Rural Fiber Deployment
The California Public Utilities Commission voted 4-1 to provide a $1.49 million grant from the California Advanced Services Fund to Inyo Networks for a fiber-to-the-premises last-mile network in the underserved Nicasio area of western Marin County, California. Also at the…
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commission’s Thursday meeting, CPUC unanimously approved an environmental review that authorized the release of a $2 million CASF grant funding to TDS Telecom for a project that will extend fiber internet to 15 square miles covering the Winterhaven community and other areas of unincorporated Imperial County, including the Quechan Indian Reservation. The commission also signed off on staff comments to be submitted to the FCC docket 16-145 on the transition from text telephone (TTY) technology to real-time text (see 1607110058).