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Category: Media Coverage

CAFwd PolicyWise Episode 12: Broadband In California

This past year has shown that access to the internet has never been more important as remote learning, working and socializing have become a way of life.  On this week’s episode of PolicyWise, Demetria Wack and Michael Wiafe welcome Sunne Wright McPeak of the California Emerging [...]

Frontier Agrees to Fiber-Network Expansion in Plan to Exit Bankruptcy

Frontier Communications has agreed to expand its fiber-to-the-premises network and improve its poor service quality as part of a bankruptcy settlement in California. Frontier committed to deploy fiber to 350,000 homes and businesses within six years on a schedule that would require the first 100,000 […]

Southern California Leaders Hope to Close Digital Divide

A new Southern California effort aims to address an inequality spotlighted by the coronavirus pandemic — the digital divide.  Inland entrepreneur Steve PonTell and San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman are bringing together leaders in business, government, technology and other fields to find ways to close the […]

It’s Time to Secure our Digital Sidewalks

Prior to COVID-19, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) estimated at least 30 million Americans were on the wrong side of  the digital divide, and nearly 12 million children are part of “the homework gap” because they do not have access to broadband internet at home. […]

Call For New Federal Partnership On Broadband Access In California

Access to high-performance broadband is a civil rights issue according to Broadband for America Now, a report from the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. An initial 2019 report, Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s, was scheduled to be updated this month to reflect […]

Quest for Digital Equity Conversations

CETF announces the Quest for Digital Equity Conversations, timely interviews that capture the robust exchange of ideas among diverse stakeholders—elected officials and policymakers, regional and local civic leaders, community-based organizations (CBOs), and Internet Service Providers (ISPs)—to collectively address the challenges associated with the many facets […]

South Valley Middle School Students Receive Free Chromebooks

“We are grateful to Frontier Communications and the California Emerging Technology Fund for the generous donation of 100 Chromebooks,” said Deborah Padilla, director of Secondary Education and Curriculum. “Providing online access to all students in the community has been a challenge; yet the generosity of […]