Will Brunelle in Capital New York reports that six months after Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $500 million broadband plan, there are, "no defined guidelines, rules, or even a clear sense of how it will be implemented and regulated." There have been three announcements of the plan, but not many details. Cuomo says he wants to have the entire state wired for 100 megabits per second internet access by 2018. But the story reports that, "Cuomo’s budget proposal devotes just 31 words to the program, saying it will, 'support the development of infrastructure to bring high-speed internet access to underserved regions throughout the state, and to support the development of other telecommunications infrastructure.'" Other critics of what little there is of a proposal, say it is a give-away to internet service providers. “The only clear beneficiaries of this program will be cable and internet providers, who will have a new state subsidy to expand their footprints into areas in which their competitors have demonstrated an inability to operate profitably,” said Ken Girardin of the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy. Christopher Mitchell, the director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative for the Institute for Local Self Reliance, said the state should, “prioritize funds that are going to providers that are accountable to the public … because that’s how we electrified the country.” Read the full story in Capital New York.