The California Legislature Must Stay The Course on Broadband Funding

As California, the world's fifth-largest economy, navigates a changing landscape, including a budget deficit, it's important that the legislature not take shortcuts that rob the state of future-proof technology. Instead of backing down, the California legislature must continue on the path for broadband funding that it has already started down. Doing so would ensure a future of high-speed, low-cost internet access for all Californians.

In 2021 Governor Newsom signed into law S.B. 156, which promised a $6-billion multi-year investment …