Two and a half years after it was announced that New York City would spend $157 million to build municipal broadband infrastructure in poor neighborhoods, city officials have quietly canceled the plan.
After Gothamist received a tip the project had been canceled, officials from the city’s Office of Technology and Innovation confirmed the decision on Nov. 29 — about a year after the de Blasio administrationit had chosen a dozen businesses — including a handful owned or led by women or people of color — to spearhead the effort. The cancellation has not been publicly announced, but city officials said those businesses were informed sometime in November.
Fraser, who was appointed by Adams, added that the previous administration’s plan didn’t make full use of the city’s existing broadband infrastructure and that OTI was planning to issue a replacement proposal sometime in the future. In the summer of 2020, spurred by the COVID-19 crisis, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio diverted $87 million from the NYPD’s budget to fund the next phase of the plan.brought cheap or free broadband to more than a dozen NYCHA developments, installed by local providers.
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