Posts Tagged: Carolyn McIntyre

Broadband: $6 billion plan creates public safety gap

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by CAROLYN McINTYRE posted 09.07.2021

OPINION: With explosive wildfires once again raging across California, public safety must be paramount as legislators take final action on bills. Action is needed now to ensure that Governor Newsom’s $6 billion broadband plan enacted in July protects all Californians no matter which provider or network delivers their communications service.

Fast, reliable internet access a must to close digital divide

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by CAROLYN McINTYRE posted 03.05.2021

OPINION: When life went online in March 2020 due to pandemic stay-at-home orders, ensuring access to high-speed broadband service quickly became one of our state’s highest priorities. Now, nearly a year later, task forces have been assembled, executive orders have been issued and the Legislature faces a flurry of new broadband bills with a dizzying array of both new and old proposed solutions.