Inyo County California

REST OF COUNTY ENCOURAGED TO TEST IN PREPARATION FOR FUTURE REQUESTS

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is currently evaluating grant applications for broadband expansion projects for the State’s Federal Funding Account (FFA) program and the Federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. As part of the CPUC’s evaluation activities, the agency has reached out to Inyo County to obtain current Internet speed test data for Independence residents.

The results of the speed test, available at https://connectedeasternsierra.net/speed/, will provide the data needed to refute or validate claims of existing Internet service speeds. 

After residents run the Internet speed test, they can effortlessly submit their test results to the Inyo-Mono Broadband Consortium, which will then share the results with CPUC to assist in its grant application evaluation. 

The test will ask for an address or town and the type of device being used (cell phones can’t be tested) and will then display the speed test data before asking the tester to submit their results by clicking the “Submit Your Results” button. A form with additional questions will appear, allowing residents to add comments and/or contact information if they wish. The most important piece of information needed is one’s current Internet Service Provider.

“While our immediate need for speed test results is for Independence, we’re encouraging all residents in Inyo County to run this test in order to have speed test data available in case the CPUC has any questions in the near future about actual Internet service speeds in other parts of the County,” said Eastern Sierra Regional Broadband Coordinator Scott Armstrong. 

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