The
California Broadband Council will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Topics to be covered include:
- AB 1549’s Broadband Site Database
- FirstNet
- Microsoft’s Connecting Rural America Program
- County Fairgrounds’ Needs for Broadband
- California’s Emerging Technology Fund
- CASF Eligible Households
After California state CIO Amy Tong makes introductory remarks, Caltrans’ Assistant Secretary Ben De Alba will update stakeholders on the department’s centralized inventory of broadband conduits along state highway rights-of-way. The database was begun under AB 1549 in September 2016, and its taskforce held its first meeting in April.
There will be an update for California’s
FirstNet activities, which have been in
the planning stages since 2014.
The Microsoft Connecting Rural America to New Opportunities program, which has explored leveraging unused TV channels, will also be discussed.
Kayla Nick-Kearney was a staff writer for Techwire from March 2017 through January 2019.
