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This is awesome. But isnit actually going to get built? Whats going to stop companies taking the money and then see nothing being built? What's going to stop t

This is awesome. But isnit actually going to get built? Whats going to stop companies taking the money and then see nothing being built? What's going to stop the California govt giving contract to companies like Verizon or Comcast?

ac29 5y ago
"The bill would require the [Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy] to retain a California based nonprofit entity as a third-party administrator to manage the development, acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of the broadband network, and to submit annually a report to the budget committees of the Legislature on the broadband network, as specified" (text from the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB156 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...)
- yostrovs 5y ago
  So they outsource responsibility to a third party so that when the project fails it won't be the people that created it that will be blamed. It's simply amusing to read this stuff while they're trying to figure out what to do with the useless train line they kind of built.
systemvoltage 5y ago
This is California. I guarantee with 100% certainty that this is going to fail. They will be late. They will be over-budget. Tax payers fund government officials earning in excess of $250k to go to meetings after meetings of regulatory compliance. In the end, they'll decide to dump more of tax payer money into it after delays of Phase I followed by threats based on sunken cost fallacy, and before you know, the technology has moved on and it is year 2035.
- deep-root 5y ago
  Bureaucratic cynicism aside, if recalling correctly the 1GB symmetrical fiber in Oakland is largely courtesy of a CA gov bid that Sonic won. As is the case widely across CA fiber installations, micro-trenching and otherwise.

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This is awesome. But isnit actually going to get built? Whats going to stop companies taking the money and then see nothing being built? What's going to stop t

by mithusingh32 5y ago

ac29 5y ago
"The bill would require the [Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy] to retain a California based nonprofit entity as a third-party administrator to manage the development, acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of the broadband network, and to submit annually a report to the budget committees of the Legislature on the broadband network, as specified" (text from the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB156 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...)
- yostrovs 5y ago
  So they outsource responsibility to a third party so that when the project fails it won't be the people that created it that will be blamed. It's simply amusing to read this stuff while they're trying to figure out what to do with the useless train line they kind of built.
systemvoltage 5y ago
This is California. I guarantee with 100% certainty that this is going to fail. They will be late. They will be over-budget. Tax payers fund government officials earning in excess of $250k to go to meetings after meetings of regulatory compliance. In the end, they'll decide to dump more of tax payer money into it after delays of Phase I followed by threats based on sunken cost fallacy, and before you know, the technology has moved on and it is year 2035.
- deep-root 5y ago
  Bureaucratic cynicism aside, if recalling correctly the 1GB symmetrical fiber in Oakland is largely courtesy of a CA gov bid that Sonic won. As is the case widely across CA fiber installations, micro-trenching and otherwise.