CPUC connects Salinas Valley to Silicon Valley with fast, cheap fiber
10 April 2014 by Steve Blum
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broadband, ccb, cpuc, cruzio, gonzales, ponderosa telephone, public policy, salinas valley, silicon valley, sunesys, surfnet
A 91-mile fiber optic middle network for the Salinas Valley, stretching from Santa Cruz in the north, to Watsonville, Moss Landing, Castroville, Salinas, Gonzales and Soledad in the south, is on the way. On a unanimous vote this morning, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a $10.6 million grant to Sunesys, LLC from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF).
“The key point for me was that typically that these projects only make a price commitment for two years”, said Commissioner Michel Florio.… More