Federal grant ensures “Internet for All” in Pamunkey Tribal Nation - WRIC ABC 8News

WASHINGTON, Dc (WRIC) — Under a caller national program, everyone surviving connected the Pamunkey Tribal Reservation successful King William County volition soon person entree to high-speed internet.

The $500,000 assistance from the Department of Commerce’s Internet for All inaugural volition wage to grow broadband connections to each 48 homes connected the reservation, arsenic good arsenic each of the assemblage institutions.

“The Pamunkey Indian Tribe is some honored and excited to beryllium receiving a Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program Award,” said Pamunkey Tribe Chief Robert Gray. “This grant volition supply entree to opportunities specified arsenic distant education, telemedicine, and concern that volition greatly amended the lives of each tribal citizens.”

The grants were authorized nether the infrastructure measure passed past year, which included $3 cardinal successful grants to tribal nations to grow broadband access.

“High-speed net entree has go a necessity of mundane life,” said Senator Tim Kaine. “For excessively long, Native American communities successful Virginia person lacked entree to reliable broadband.”

A national programme volition besides supply a discount connected broadband net entree for qualifying households — some those connected tribal onshore and different low-income households crossed Virginia. You tin check your eligibility here.