Great Valley Rural Telecommunications Summit:
Rural Highspeed Access—Obstacles & Opportunities

Download the Proceedings Paper [pdf - 1.4 MB]

CPUC Draft Report on SB 1563

Designing Regulatory, Economic and Policy Recommendations for Rural Highspeed Access. The summit was structured to provide a forum for developing recommendations for change in current policy and investment so all residents, regardless of urban/rural status, can benefit from the fast-evolving primary connection to information, the global economy, and each other.

Download the Summit Program

Transcripts from Key Note Speakers

• Commissioner Susan Kennedy, CPUC [pdf - 109 KB]
• Dr. Robert Pepper, FCC [pdf - 127 KB]

Summit Presentations
* presentations in pdf format

• Dr. Robert Pepper, Federal Communications Commission
• Ron Dibleka, National Exchange Carriers Association
• Scott Lindsay, Rural Broadband Coalition
• Mark Welch, SBC
• Stuart Jeffery, Wireless Communications Alliance
• Lisa Bickford, InReach Internet
• Richard Chabran, California Community Technology Policy Group

For more information contact Daniel Roix at 209-522-5103 or .