Universal Telephone Service
Cal. PUC § 884
California Statutes
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a) It is the intent of the Legislature that any program administered by the commission that addresses the inequality of access to high-speed broadband services by providing those services to schools and libraries at a discounted price, provide comparable discounts to a nonprofit community technology program. (
b) Notwithstanding any other law or existing program of the commission, but consistent with the purposes for which those funds were appropriated from the California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund in Item 8660-001-0493 of
Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2003 (Chapter of the Statutes of 2003), and reappropriated in Item 8660-491 of
Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2006 (Chapter of the Statutes of 2006), the commission may expend up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) of the unencumbered amount of those funds for the nonrecurring installation costs for high-speed broadband services for community organizations that are eligible for discounted rates pursuant to
Section 280. (
c) For the purpose of this section: (1) “High-speed broadband services” means a system for the digital transmission of information over the Internet at a speed of at least kilobits per second. (2) “Nonprofit community technology program” means a community-based nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and engages in diffusing technology into local communities and training local communities that have no access to, or have limited access to, the Internet and advanced telecommunications technologies.