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California backs down to Trump admin, won’t force ISPs to offer $15 broadband: "Complete farce": State lawmaker says US threatened to block broadband funding.
“Complete farce”: State lawmaker says US threatened to block broadband funding.
But in new guidance from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the agency said it prohibits states "from explicitly or implicitly setting the LCSO [low-cost service option] rate a subgrantee must offer." She said the NTIA's new guidance is a "complete farce," since ISPs are getting public money to build infrastructure and won't have to commit to offering low-income plans at specific rates. "From our standpoint as advocates and being on the calls with the CPUC [California Public Utilities Commission], our interpretation is that the rules simply just eliminate any new builds" from having an affordable option as a requirement, she said.
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