California’s Public Utilities Commission conditionally approved a matching grant slightly...
California’s Public Utilities Commission conditionally approved a matching grant slightly exceeding $640,000 to Calaveras Telephone, whose Poker Flat broadband project is aimed at isolated communities in the Sierra foothills. The California Advanced Services Fund grant, 10 percent of the total…
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$6.4 million cost, will apply if Calaveras lands a 64 percent matching American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant of $4.08 million, the commission said Thursday. Calaveras Telephone would put up the other $1.68 million. Poker Flat now has access on copper lines at speeds below 3 Mbps down and 512 kbps up. Project planners envision a fiber to the home network offering speeds of 3-20 Mpbs down and 512 kbps-5 Mbps up to 409 households in a lakeside community off state Highway 4, the commission said. Of its $100 million stake, the state fund has designated more than $49 million, a figure that has shrunk because the fund withdrew grants to eight recipients who failed to get Recovery Act or matching funds for their projects, the commission said.