Martin Espinoza in The Press Democrat has a story on the lack of fast internet speed along the Sonoma Coast.
This is not news to people that live on the coast and Espinoza writes “In Sonoma County, 8,277 residents do not have access to high-speed Internet service, primarily along the coast, Sonoma Valley and the northern region. In Mendocino County, a third of its nearly 90,000 residents lack access to broadband service. Perhaps surprisingly, residents in rural Lake County have the easiest access to broadband service.”
Maybe help is on the way as Espinoza reports “A grassroots consortium in Sonoma and Mendocino counties that includes high-speed Internet advocates, county officials and economic development experts is crafting a proposal to build a 122-mile, 72-strand fiber-optic ring that would connect the North Coast to the telecommunications backbone along Highway 101. The ring would run west from Petaluma to Bodega Bay, north to Fort Bragg and east to Willits.”
Espinoza reports that “The FCC’s Broadband Progress Report defines broadband “benchmark speeds” as a download speed of 4 megabits per second and an upload speed of 1 megabit per second.”
You can read the complete Press Democrat story HERE.
