Form 477 Data Not Detailed Enough, Says San Jose Official
FCC Form 477 doesn’t provide sufficient data about broadband connectivity, said San Jose Chief Innovation Officer Shireen Santosham. “We really need almost neighborhood-by-neighborhood data,” she said Wednesday on Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s podcast. To get better data, San Jose joined with…
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Stanford University to do street surveys with children in low-income communities. They found that half of the low-income population doesn’t have wired broadband at home and 80 percent of families with less than $15,000 annual income don’t have internet access, Santosham said. The city is addressing broadband from a “digital divide and equity standpoint,” as well as “an economic competitiveness standpoint and the race to 5G in our community,” she said. San Jose has agreements (see 1806280007) with telecom companies to invest about $500 million in upgrading fiber infrastructure as well as deploying more than 4,000 small cells in the city, she said. About $24 million will go to community-based organizations for such things as coding camps for kids, devices and digital literacy programs in basic connectivity, Santosham said.