The campaign urges Americans to tell the FCC to include social benefit clauses in the conditions of its approval of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner merger, which would hold “Comcast accountable for improving and expanding its existing affordable Internet offer, Internet Essentials.” Comcast is actively opposing [...]
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"We've got slower speeds at higher prices," said Sunne Wright McPeak, head of the California Emerging Technology Fund, a broadband advocacy group. "We're not competitive globally." Read More>>>
Mario Garcia came to Damaris Antonio's tiny apartment bearing gifts most families in Silicon Valley have come to take for granted: a personal computer, Internet service and a secret password to a better life. "This is going to open up the world for you," Garcia [...]
The more connected communities become, the more opportunities they will have to grow economically and integrate into the rest of society. That's why Los Angeles County officials and the California Emerging Technology Fund, a nonprofit that promotes broadband in low-income areas, have urged the FCC [...]
In 3.5 years, Comcast has reached just 14 percent of the eligible households (46,273 out of more than 313,000 eligible households in California). In what classroom is 14 percent a passing grade? TWC, the largest Internet service provider in Coachella Valley, launched a similar pilot [...]
The digital divide remains as wide as the Central Valley for the poorest California children, but not because of a lack of interest among our low-income families. After a short news item aired on Spanish-language TV recently about an affordable home Internet offer, 2,700 calls [...]
Former CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin is joining with California leaders, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles County officials, to ask the FCC to closely review Comcast's performance in implementing Internet Essentials. If regulators are inclined to approve the merger, [...]
Those with Internet-connected computers can connect to the world's knowledge, those without are in an information blackout. And how you connect to the Internet dictates what information you seek. Surveys from the CETF show people connected to the Internet at home through computers, rather than [...]
CETF wrote in its filing to the FCC that "if the corporate consolidations proposed by Comcast are approved, 87% of all California students on the free-and-reduced-lunch program will reside in Comcast service territory. This is why it is essential that the FCC hold Comcast accountable [...]
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti wrote to the FCC that the "potential significance" of Comcast's affordable home Internet program "in Los Angeles is undeniable." But, he added, "unfortunately, that program has not worked well, as the July 11, 2014 filing in this proceeding by the California [...]