San Francisco’s push for faster high-speed internet got a big boost last week, when a city supervisor introduced a bill that would allow the city’s Department of Public Works to begin issuing micro-trenching city permits for internet providers as soon as January 2018.Supervisor Mark Farrell introduced the bill Tuesday. In it, he asks that the city now allow internet providers to dig a trench for their fiber optic cables that only go as deep as 18 inches, according to a story in the San Francisco Business Times.Under the terms of the bill, the Department of Public Works would issue permits
