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Author: Nadine Hugg

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and CETF Collaborate on Groundbreaking Research to Expand Affordable Broadband

  With billions of public dollars at stake, top U.S. Internet researchers and policy leaders will identify effective models to get households in need online In the first-of-its-kind collaboration, nationally-recognized researchers from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, in partnership […]

Sunne Wright McPeak Calls Broadband Spending Plan “Huge”

Sunne Wright McPeak, CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund which had pressed for the $100 billion originally proposed by President Joe Biden, nonetheless hailed the broadband money as “huge.”  “We hope the additional federal funds will be for California and for all states, an […]

Getting Across the Digital Divide

NASHVILLE, TN – Americans have been on line a lot more since the pandemic began. Children attended school remotely, people worked from home, telemedicine became a new trend, and all kinds of meetings took place on ZOOM. “For more than a decade the CETF has […]

California moves to adopt historic $6 billion broadband plan

After decades of advocacy and a pandemic year that forced schools to shift to online instruction, California is preparing to make its largest investment in expanding public broadband access to date. Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers announced their plans for how to spend the […]