CCTA: $6B Broadband Bill 'Going Off the Rails' at CPUC
Cable operators urged California legislators to stop commissioners directing a $6 billion broadband law's money to areas with higher than 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload. Legislators defined unserved as under 25/3 Mbps, but “just a month later, the…
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plan is already going off the rails, with the California Public Utilities Commission instead unilaterally deciding to spend these funds in areas that already have internet service,” California Cable and Telecommunications Association President Carolyn McIntyre blogged Friday. Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves tweeted, "Fake News coming out of" CCTA. The commission's middle-mile ruling said the agency would prioritize places that enable last-mile connections to residences unserved by 25/3 Mbps, she said. "Lets [sic] stop wasting time and get to work!" McIntyre last month raised concerns about the CPUC using 100 Mbps to define unserved (see 2108190046).