Data: Broadband Adoption in California, 2016

Despite being home to Silicon Valley, California has many people who are underserved when it comes to broadband, according to the authors of a bill (AB 1665) that would use California Advanced Services Fund money to deliver broadband to the large swaths of the state that do not have access to reliable Internet service. Many rural communities have limited access, and 14 percent of residents only access the Internet using a smartphone, according to the 2016 Annual Survey on Broadband Adoption in California.