[RTC List] CPUC CASF broadband funding

[Tina Nerat]

Hi all, 

There was a big announcment for our region this week about the 2nd round of
CASF funding applications for areas unserved/underserved by broadband. Below
are the relevant resolutions at the CPUC. They vote on 2/20/09.

 

General notice:

http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/COMMENT_RESOLUTION/96226.htm

 

In Mendocino County, WillitsOnline applied for Laytonville and AT&T applied
for Comptche. 

AT&T:

http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/COMMENT_RESOLUTION/96222.htm

WillitsOnline:

http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/COMMENT_RESOLUTION/96218.htm

 

The really big news and the largest CASF award to date is to Broadband
Associates, who will build a fiber optic backbone from Eureka to the
Interstate 5 corridor. Their "last mile" service will be wireless in
unserved/underserved from the Blue Lake area over to Whiskeytown. CENIC, who
provides Internet connectivity to HSU, CR, and K-12 schools, connected the
Redwood Coast Connect project to Broadband Associates.

http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/COMMENT_RESOLUTION/96220.htm

 

These projects (and others that unfortunately didn't make it through the
CASF process) are the direct result of community activism and provider
contact/encouragement from the Redwood Coast Connect project. Tina

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