ViaSat's California broadband subsidy plan targets wired homes
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Viasat stakes a claim from the Klamath to the Colorado.
A satellite Internet service provider, ViaSat, asked for $11.1 million in the latest round of California Advanced Service Fund (CASF) grant requests. They want to provide subsidized broadband service over a huge swath of California that begins at the border with Mexico and runs up the western half of the state all the way to Oregon, plus a few detours to the east.
They’re not asking for money to serve every household in that area, only about 178,000.… More