Billions earmarked to fill gaps in California’s web connectivity

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) — The Broadband Consortium of the Pacific Coast works in Ventura County and needs to know in case you are glad or bored together with your Web connection.

California has put aside billions of {dollars} to look at web connectivity.

The consortium has already collected information in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Now’s the time to determine what Ventura County must make the web accessible to everybody.

“Now we have $6 billion in funding from the state to deal with all of this,” mentioned Invoice Simmons of the Broadband Consortium Pacific Coast. “I am paid by the CPUC and my job is to take the out there funds and create this native method to fixing these issues.”

In keeping with California, the purpose is for 98% of state residents to have the ability to connect with the Web. The consortium needs to listen to from individuals who stay in rural areas in addition to densely populated residential neighborhoods.

Camarillo’s Invoice Barnhill mentioned that typically the web will not connect with his cellphone.

“There are a number of parking heaps the place I am utilizing my cellphone and I am on the web and it is simply useless so I’ve to drive a mile to get again on-line,” Barnhill mentioned.

However at house, Barnhill mentioned his web was good.

Ventura County information will probably be used to fill gaps the place web service shouldn’t be out there.

Santa Rosa Valley resident James Dinges has a backup energy supply in his house that permits him to keep up his web connection within the occasion of an influence outage.

“So while you’re shedding energy at house and you do not have web entry, this YETI battery has been an actual game-changer for me,” he mentioned.

In case you are from Ventura County, go to PCBROADBHAND.ORG to take part on this survey.