CPUC Revises State Broadband Map

California’s state broadband map remains a “work in progress,” said California Public Utilities Commissioner Darcie Houck at a California Broadband Council virtual meeting Wednesday. The CPUC Communications Division told stakeholders in a Tuesday email that it updated the state broadband map’s CASF infrastructure account eligibility layer “to display locations that were inadvertently excluded” in the map released earlier this month. “We received significant feedback on the initial map that was released and have been working diligently to update the map with a new version,” Houck told the council. In response to feedback, the CPUC “removed predefined priority funding areas” and “the underlying data now better reflects the number of unserved locations that have been identified,” the commissioner said.