About ConnectCalifornia
ConnectCalifornia is an independent outlet covering California infrastructure issues from the consumer side: what internet and utility service costs, who can actually get it, and the public policy behind both. We are based in Los Angeles.
What we cover
Most coverage of California broadband comes either from the providers themselves or from comparison sites paid by the providers. We are neither. We publish pricing trackers, coverage research, and policy explainers built from FCC and CPUC data, state legislation, and our own records of what AT&T, Spectrum, Xfinity, Cox, and Frontier have charged over time. The question we keep coming back to is what any of it means for the household paying the bill.
We pay particular attention to the places the market has skipped: rural counties stuck on DSL and satellite, low-income neighborhoods that fiber lines run past without an off-ramp, and cities trying to build networks of their own.
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We are most interested in the parts of the market that incumbents have no reason to fix: fiber overbuilders, small WISPs, utility co-ops, and municipal networks. Whether California closes its digital divide will mostly be decided locally, by cities and counties, not by AT&T or the FCC.
Broadband pricing
California Digital Divide
Low-income access
Editorial standards
ConnectCalifornia does not run sponsored content and does not use affiliate links. Links to providers on this site are plain links with no tracking, and we take no referral fees.
Everything here is published under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license, so you can republish it with attribution. Corrections and data requests go to research@connectcalifornia.com.
Reports
Research and reporting on broadband development in California, updated as the data changes.
