5G Free California – Education, Outreach and Advocacy on Wireless Harms and Support for Safer Technology
Education, Outreach and Action to Keep Topanga and California 5G Free
AB-1065 allows telecom corporations to use taxpayer funding for wireless networks instead of wired fiber-optic networks to provide communities with high-speed broadband access. It’s a sneaky bill — two little sentences inserted into existing law that will unnecessarily result in more antennas in more communities.
This bill would legalize criminal “cross-subsidies” by large telecom corporations after the fact. For over 20 years, telecoms have been stealing funds collected from taxpayers that were intended to provide high-quality wired broadband services to everyone, including underserved communities . Telecoms instead used the funds to build out their wireless networks (wireless is cheaper to install than fiber) , and now they want their past mis-use of taxpayer funds legalized, instead of building out the superior
5G Free California – Education, Outreach and Advocacy on Wireless Harms and Support for Safer Technology