“A new report suggests that, at least in California, telecoms company AT&T may only be making fiber internet access available to affluent communities, leaving some low-income areas in California stuck with internet access that can be as slow as 768Kbps.
“This leaves 1.7 million households lacking access to even the basic standard of ‘broadband’ as defined by the California Public Utilities Commission.
“The study from UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, called “AT&T’s Digital Divide in California,” found that throughout the income range, the higher average earnings of a specific area, the higher chance there was of it having high-speed internet access.
“Fiber-to-the-home households had a median income of $110,474, while DSL access homes had a median income of just $47,894.”
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