GoKawiilCalifornia accepts $1.86B BEAD funds, refuses to drop net neutrality law
California has agreed to take $1.86 billion in federal broadband deployment funding while explicitly refusing the Trump administration's condition that it stop enforcing net neutrality and other telecom rules. The CPUC told NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth in a letter that it will not waive its right to challenge any unconstitutional or unauthorized conditions, and that other state agencies, including the attorney general, remain free to enforce California law against ISPs.