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Supervisors press city on closing digital divide as analysts recommend mix of infrastructure and programs
Summary
At a public hearing, the budget office outlined how 100,000+ San Franciscans lack home broadband; analysts recommended a mix of municipal fiber, dig‑once conduit policies, hardware subsidies, and training while the City CIO highlighted existing city fiber and SF Wi‑Fi.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee held a hearing April 16 on inequitable broadband access in San Francisco, hearing a report from the Budget and Legislative Analyst and testimony from city information‑technology leaders, community groups and local internet service providers.
Fred Brusso of the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s office said the city’s controller survey (2013) found 88 percent of respondents reported a home internet connection, but about 6 percent used dial‑up and roughly 12 percent reported no home connection — which the office estimated represents just over 100,000 San Franciscans without broadband as the term is commonly defined. Brusso…
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