Billions earmarked to find the gaps in internet connectivity in California - KABC-TV

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) -- The Broadband Consortium of the Pacific Coast is moving successful Ventura County and they privation to cognize if you're blessed oregon annoyed with your net connection.

California has acceptable speech billions of dollars to look astatine net connectivity.

The consortium has already collected information from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Now, it's clip to fig retired what Ventura County needs to marque the net disposable to everyone.

"We person $6 cardinal of backing flowing successful from the authorities to instrumentality attraction of each of this," said Bill Simmons with the Broadband Consortium Pacific Coast. "I'm paid for by the CPUC and my occupation is to instrumentality the funds that are disposable and make this section attack to tackling these problems."

According to California, the extremity is to person 98% of the state's residents to beryllium capable to link to the internet. The consortium wants to perceive from radical who unrecorded successful agrarian areas arsenic good arsenic densely-populated residential neighborhoods.

Bill Barnhill of Camarillo said that sometimes, the net transportation does not link to his phone.

"There's mates of parking tons wherever I usage my telephone and I'm connected the net and it's conscionable dead, truthful I person to thrust a mile to spell get hooked up again," Barnhill said.

But astatine home, Barnhill said his net is perfect.

The information for Ventura County volition beryllium utilized to capable successful the gaps wherever net work isn't available.

Santa Rosa Valley nonmigratory James Dinges has a back-up powerfulness root astatine his location that helps support his net transportation connected erstwhile the powerfulness goes out.

"So erstwhile you suffer powerfulness successful the location and don't person net access, this YETI artillery has truly been a crippled changer for me," helium said.

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