The California Public Utilities Commission is expected to decide this month whether Comcast's proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable's operations in the state would be in the public interest. An administrative lawjudge has recommended that the takeover be approved but with a number of conditions [...]
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As Los Angeles City Hall struggles with updating its antiquated technology systems, the city will donate or get rid of about 10,000 computers deemed unusable by city employees. . . Another 2,000 older city computers will also be donated. About 1,500 computers are being given [...]
About 35 to 40 percent of the old computers will be refurbished and half of those will be given to low-income individuals and families. The other half will go to local nonprofits with public access centers that serve low-income areas. The program begins in the [...]
The presiding Administrative Law Judge at the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday, Feb. 13 issued a proposed decision for approval of the merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, Inc. but requiring significant public interest conditions that were requested by the California Emerging Technology [...]
"Technology is a critical tool for our next generation to succeed in the global economy, and it starts with a computer and Internet at home," said Sunne Wright McPeak, the executive director of the California Emerging Technology Fund. "School-improvement initiatives, including Common Core Standards and [...]
Comcast and other cable companies offering cheap Internet aren't benefiting enough low-income families, critics say. Comcast's Internet Essentials, the biggest, has reached 350,000 households -- or about 13 percent of those eligible, according to one estimate. Cox Communications Inc., which has the capacity to provide [...]
Too many low-income people - including job seekers, older students, seniors and people with disabilities - can't afford full-priced Internet and often they can't reach their fullest potential without it," said Zach Leverenz, chief executive of the connectivity nonprofit EveryoneOn. On Wednesday, EveryoneOn, along with [...]
The campaign urges Americans to tell the FCC to include social benefit clauses in the conditions of its approval of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner merger, which would hold “Comcast accountable for improving and expanding its existing affordable Internet offer, Internet Essentials.” Comcast is actively opposing [...]
"We've got slower speeds at higher prices," said Sunne Wright McPeak, head of the California Emerging Technology Fund, a broadband advocacy group. "We're not competitive globally." Read More>>>
Mario Garcia came to Damaris Antonio's tiny apartment bearing gifts most families in Silicon Valley have come to take for granted: a personal computer, Internet service and a secret password to a better life. "This is going to open up the world for you," Garcia [...]