Dear Governor Newsom; Here’s the Fiber Optic Future that Didn’t Happened in California.

Bruce Kushnick
Sep 20, 2021

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Dear Senator Hueso, (San Diego), (Chairman of the Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications)

Pacific Bell’s “landmark” agreement with the city of San Diego to be upgraded to fiber optics, here called ‘VDT” — Video Dialtone — by 2010. Here is the map of San Diego, CA and the coverage with fiber optics to all by 2010.

The Landmark Deal with San Diego: Unserved Areas Completed by 2010

All of California was supposed to be upgraded, starting in 1994.

Rise and Fall of the Fiber Optic Future in CA, as told by the San Diego Tribune

No audits or investigations of any note ever happened.

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Bruce Kushnick

New Networks Institute,Executive Director, & Founding Member, IRREGULATORS; Telecom analyst for 40 years, and I have been playing the piano for 65 years.