In January 2020, then-Mayor de Blasio unveiled a plan to help more than 1.5M New Yorkers without internet access while also bringing competition to areas with only one internet provider. Handed over to the Adams administration, the plan has been paused.
An ambitious plan to bring affordable high-speed internet to millions of people across New York City has been put on pause, leaving the poorest New Yorkers hanging while the Adams administration decides whether to proceed.
But at a City Council technology committee hearing in mid-May, the city's new Chief Technology Officer Matthew Fraser said the program is being re-evaluated. “Eleven service providers, many minority-owned, are ready and waiting to lay the necessary fiber optic cables for major broadband expansion,” said Danny Fuchs, managing partner at HR&A Advisors, which worked on the Internet Master Plan.
“Anything that moves forward from this point, it’s this administration’s burden,” Fraser told lawmakers at the City Council budget hearing. “We’re in the process of unpacking every component of the [plan] and deciding what’s the best way to move forward.”Most New Yorkers use mobile internet — 4G and 5G — while out and about and then turn to Wi-Fi at home.
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