A N.Y. PSC staff report on broadband said the vast majority of st...
A N.Y. PSC staff report on broadband said the vast majority of state households had broadband service available and the 44% overall broadband penetration statewide is well above the national average, but thinly populated rural areas still pose a…
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major challenge to universal broadband service. Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) in his first state-of-the-state address said he wants N.Y. to have universal broadband access by 2010, when his term ends. The report suggested approaches for making broadband service universal, including financing broadband deployment from state revenue and pushing for universal service fund changes at the FCC to subsidize broadband service. Low-density areas likely won’t produce revenue to justify wireline broadband outlays, the report said, urging that wireless or satellite-based technologies be considered. It said another major problem in making broadband universal is identifying populations with no broadband access. It said available data is broken out by zip codes but population density can vary greatly within a code. The report recommended forming a multiagency broadband task force to pinpoint areas that lack broadband access and which are unlikely to ever see it without subsidy or use of alternative technology.