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CARUTHERS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A groundbreaking lawsuit was held Tuesday pursuing Comcast's enlargement of its Xfinity broadband web to areas successful Riverdale and pursuing a twelvemonth of having services successful Caruthers.
At the event, Comcast and Fresno County officials announced that the institution volition bring the Xfinity web to astir 162 antecedently unserved residents successful areas of Riverdale. Caruthers got broadband net services successful the Spring of 2024.
Director of Government Affairs for Comcast, Nathan Ahle, says that for agrarian areas, a unchangeable broadband transportation makes things easier to access.
"It means everything. With entree to online learning, banking services and assemblage applications and telehealth, and occupation opportunities. A unchangeable broadband transportation is everything," Ahle said.
The enlargement of the web is made imaginable by a $1 cardinal Federal Funding Account Grant from the California Public Utilities Commission and backstage backing by Comcast.
"Comcast came and started this task astir a twelvemonth ago. They yet person it done... The students truly emotion it, and if you're not astatine schoolhouse oregon if your parents are not capable to person outer oregon internet, you're fundamentally near out," Buddy Mendez, supervisor for Fresno County District 4, said.
Mendez says that for agrarian communities and schoolhouse districts, the lone high-speed net is truly lone astatine schools. He says helium feels large that students volition person internet.
Officials besides celebrated a twelvemonth of servicing Caruthers. For the celebration, Comcast donated $10,000 to the nonprofit organization, Caruthers Unified Education Foundation, to assistance make greater integer accidental and supply integer literacy resources. Comcast besides gave each of the promoting eighth graders astatine Caruthers Elementary a brand-new laptop.
