As CASF Funding Dwindles, CPUC May Hike Surcharge
The California Advanced Services Fund surcharge may nearly double to 1.019% from 0.56% starting Dec. 1. The California Public Utilities Commission plans to vote on the proposal at its Oct. 22 meeting, the agency said Friday. The change would be…
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effective until Dec. 30, 2022, or when further revised by the CPUC. Comments are due Oct. 12. The legislature failed to pass a CASF bill this session that could have provided additional broadband infrastructure money to the dwindling fund (see 2008310034). That disappointed Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves, who tells us CASF needs more funding (see 2009180038). The agency is working on how to make current funding last until the next legislative session, she said. COVID-19 made it “tricky” to finalize many bills, including the Senate-passed SB-1130 that would have emphasized fiber, she said. “You want to be building for sustainability.”