California Senate Appropriators Clear Bill to Raise Broadband Standard
The California Senate Appropriations Committee cleared Thursday SB-1130 to raise the minimum speed standard to 25 Mbps symmetrical (see 2005270037), per unofficial results released by the committee. Under current law, California Advanced Services Fund support may only go to areas…
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where no facilities-based provider offers 10/1 Mbps. A recent amendment reduced an earlier version’s proposed requirement that subsidized projects deliver 100 Mbps symmetrical, changing that to at least 25/3 Mbps. Numbers could still change since it’s “not a finished product,” said Rural County Representatives of California Legislative Advocate Tracy Rhine. The committee held SB-1058 that would require ISPs file emergency operations plans for disasters and emergencies and SB-1069 for telecoms to report location and status of infrastructure and performance of emergency alert messages.