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
To address it in its entirety but helps create the conversation and enable the foundation for moving some of these things forward and i think the report accurately captures this broader picture of internet use and identifies vulnerable populations and the role should be to provide infrastructure as we are with the proposed expansion of our Fiber Network sf Wifi Services previously discussed etc. And my role should be to promote pervasive gig byte services in every neighborhood and an opportunity to creatively looking at funding opportunities and different ways to make this available for people in all areas of the city regardless of their socioeconomic situation. So i wanted to address a couple of things the connectivity plan and what we talked about yesterday, is not absent of a Municipal Network vision. What its focussed on right now most prominent ly is the fiber backbone that we want to create to connect primarily our municipal facilities right . Thats the obvious urgent need that w
Order. Good afternoon, everyone, this is the thursday april 16th, 2015, meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors and to my right is supervisor campos and christiansen and thank you so much to jim smith and Jonathan Stack u. S. For broadcasting us. Copies items acted upon today will appear on the next agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you and we have five items on the agenda including 3 hearings and the first two items are Liquor License transfers. An off sale general license in district 6 to s market. This is in district 6 supervisor kims district and followed by remarks from the project sponsor and then Public Comment. Lieutenant. Supervisors good afternoon lieutenant dave falson San Francisco Police Department and i have our lead investigator with us i thought it would be nice to match a face to a name every now and then and before us today is a Liquor License and if approved it will allow them to sell off sale spi
Average 69 percent connection rate when you look at the country as a whole slightly higher in california but lower than San Francisco. Fred can i ask you this is based on surveys and commonly surveys leave out Homeless People maybe immigrant populations and lower income populations so is it possible that its a large under count. Its certainly possible certain segments of the population are probably less well represented. Thank you and is the survey conducted in english only . I can they have multiple languages but i dont know how many supervisor. Thank you. Looking down at the distribution i mentioned 88 percent a high rate of connectivity but when you break it down and this slide shows the rates by supervisor ial district and the lowest in the high eighties still sounds good but you can see the range and district 8 has the highest, 94 percent and every other district in between but 3, 6 and 11 on the lower side and 8 and 4 are at the higher end. Breaking it down, then, by social i by
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