Had high speed access and the change certainly reflects increased Data Intensity and increased volume of Internet Activity and between 7 and 11 every night netflix consumes a great deal of internet capacity and Everyone Needs higher speed to keep up with that and in terms of the common barriers to Broadband Access at home three factors stand out and one is availability, do you have access in your neighborhood at your resident do wires come to your house . In general San Francisco has good coverage we have lots of providers, but theres about 17 that we counted wired and wireless providers but when you look at just wired service for the home the number of providers drops down it is only one in certain areas but its higher than that there are 4 or more in certain areas so its not equally distributed across the city and we have a map showing the distribution in the report. We have many more choices for Cellular Wireless service but that has limitations the speeds offered are lower and caps
Costly to provide free hardware or refush refurbished hardware. Supervisor christiansen. Listening to the connection noises that supervisor mar played for us, are there things that we that we should be doing to pave the the way literally for this to happen in the future talk about retro theres lots of neighborhood in the in the city that still have overhead wires and i know that there are plans that the city has to put conduits in streets that are torn up that sort of thing and are some of those programs potentially helpful down the line if we ever get to a point of becoming better wired . Yes supervisor christiansen i think those opportunities would definitely help and the city of santa monica is a good example they have a program now called incremental municipal broadband and they are doing exactly that so as other projects are executed and streets are dug up they are putting in their Municipal Fiber Network and its going a little bit at a time but they get another couple of blocks i