Tag: digital divide

The New and Improved Exide Tragedy – non-market tested wireless infrastructure

L. A. Ortega March 15, 2022   Decades ago a company named Exide began polluting its surrounding community, mostly low income Latino families, with lead poisoning.  Damages to generations of families, animals, and environment went on and on.  I mean, so what – right – just a bunch of brown poor kids, nothing to worry …

Fiber-Up My Neighborhood – Pomona: ANNOUNCEMENT/ANUNCIO

HOW FAST IS YOUR INTERNET?download this CalSpeed App today to find out: http://calspeed.org/   ARE YOU PAYING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR INTERNET?People living in Europe pay half or less than what we pay in Pomona – check-out this video:Fair Pricing, FREE $’s for Internet – L. A. Ortega (LAOrtega.com)   OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA MAPS FOR INTERNET …

Fair Pricing, FREE $’s for Internet

Wishing everyone a safe and blessed holiday season.   We leave you this year with our latest update: FREE money for Internet Service and a brief discussion on the massive disparity in pricing between Europe and US consumers for Internet service.  Click the video link below.  Quick, but informative 5 minutes.  We are continuing to fight …

The Drive to Widen the Digital Divide – CalMatters

My inaugral publication into CalMatters: October 20, 2021By Larry Ortega – click picture for article

December 11, 2021: Testing, Mapping and Survey Train the Trainer

December 11, 2021 Stan Santos of the Communication Workers of America will led a Train the Trainer Session on how to complete the Fiber-Up My Neighborhood – Pomona Survey, and teach a cohort of leaders from Mt. SAC, Pomona Unified School District, nonprofit organizations on how to conduct the CalSpeed Tests on Internet access from …

CPUC’s “scandalous” Lack of Accountability on State’s Utility (AT&T, Verizon, et al) – Must Be Cured

By: L.A. OrtegaSeptember 15, 2021 Top officials formerly with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) told me, fees assessed on rate payers and paid by the state’s utility HAVE NOT BEEN AUDITED in at least 10 years.  No one within the CPUC can confirm – to this very day – if fees collected from rate payers, are …

Webinar-210719: FCC are not Doctors and Wireless Cos. are in it for the Profit; It’s up to the Parents (Moms and Dads) to protect their children; the current telecommunication “dereg” regime has failed us, and is unnecessarily exposing small children to preventable harm caused by RF

CLICK HERE FOR JULY 19TH @ 11AM WEBINAR: FCC, Wireless Cos. and Parents protecting their children Tech-Talk with Larry Ortega podcast #210714, CLICK HERE TO LISTEN  NO PRE-MARKET SAFETY TESTING ON 5G SO-CALLED “SMALL CELLS”, TELECOM IS USING THE TOBACCO PLAYBOOK, lies about no harmful health affects from wireless radiation, despite overwhelming evidence, CHILDREN ARE MOST …

The Digital Divide: How’d We Get Here? How Do We Bridge It?

The Covid pandemic yanked-back the curtain on the telecommunication industry’s almost decade long attempt at building-out a world class telecommunication infrastructure.  What we saw were millions and millions of kids without high-speed Internet at home – literally blocked from attending school – virtually; revealing the true depth of Digital Divide and directly contradicting reports from …

A True David v. Goliath Digital Divide Story

It was telling after John Gamboa, Orson Aguilar of the Greenlining Institute and I left then CPUC President Picker’s office. We were there to implore him to intervene in the nonsense that CD’s (Communication Division at the CPUC) office was engaging. Namely spending hundreds of thousands of rate payer dollars to block payment to one …