Building community broadband: three things that work without stimulus grants
15 May 2010 by Steve Blum
ARRA, BIP, broadband stimulus, BTOP, casf, cetf, cpuc, CSU Chico, CSU Humbolt, rural broadband, SEDCorp, sierra economic development corporation
ARRA, BIP, broadband stimulus, BTOP, casf, cetf, cpuc, CSU Chico, CSU Humbolt, rural broadband, SEDCorp, sierra economic development corporation
The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) has funded several regional broadband consortia in northern and central California. At its third annual Rural Connections workshop in Redding this week, representatives from six groups presented the results of their work over the past couple of years. Two, covering California’s Gold Country and Redwood Coast, stood out as having made genuine progress toward bringing Silicon Valley-grade Internet service to areas that are otherwise off the broadband map.
Gold Country Connect provides prospective investors
with broadband planning toolsBrent Smith, CEO of Sierra Economic Development Corporation, and Connie Stewart from Humboldt State University had success stories to tell.… More