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CCBC compiles broadband resource list to assist Central Coast residents during pandemic
Sarah Vickers-Webb Production & Editorial Assistant Santa Cruz Tech Beat April 1, 2020 — Santa Cruz Consortium addresses increased broadband needs, and shares links to discounted service for qualifying low-income households Dedicated to improving broadband […]
Federal covid-19 stimulus package doesn’t seem to stimulate broadband, much
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates March 26, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo source: Tellus Venture Associates) Even by Washington, D.C. standards, $2 trillion is a lot of money. By those same standards, though, […]
Equal Access Santa Cruz Wins Big, Part II
(Contributed by Cruzio) January 21, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA Let us (Cruzio) know if you live in one of these neighborhoods! We’ll include you in our plans. When we last left our determined independent […]
U.S. house passes net neutrality bill but leaves the devil in the details and its fate to the senate
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates April 16, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA A network neutrality bill cleared the democrat-controlled U.S. house of representatives yesterday and is on its way to the U.S. senate, where […]
New year but old questions for technology and telecoms policymakers
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates January 2, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA Five major broadband issues will top the public policy charts in California and at the federal level in 2019. In no particular […]
Five consumer technology challenges will decide who owns the future
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates January 2, 2019 — Santa Cruz, CA The innovation capital of Earth is Las Vegas January 8-11 as hundreds of thousands of technology makers and breakers, and buyers and […]
Urban or rural, the need for broadband speed is the same for all in the Monterey Bay region
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat December 3, 2018 — Seaside, CA To run a business, do homework and enjoy the benefits of our digital economy, broadband service that […]
Court gives California three weeks to defend net neutrality law
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates October 2, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA The gears of justice are grinding on California’s newly minted network neutrality law. Yesterday, the federal court in Sacramento gave California attorney […]
Brown signs SB 822 and establishes Californian net neutrality rules, Trump lawyers hit back
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates October 2, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA Jerry Brown doesn’t have a problem stepping into policy territory claimed by the federal government. He’s signed bills that fly in the […]
AT&T, Comcast, Charter backed groups fight California net neutrality with lies and fear
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associate September 4, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA Lobbyists and front organisations for big telecoms companies killed one network neutrality bill – senate bill 460 – in the California legislature, […]