Virginia receives more funding for high-speed internet access - WAVY.com

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Virginia’s high-speed net entree is acceptable to expand.

U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) announced the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program volition present person astir $5 cardinal successful backing for the Commonwealth. The money totaling $4,999,975.50 volition let Virginia to make plans for broadband enlargement projects crossed the state.

The BEAD Program backing was awarded to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. The programme stems from the bipartisan infrastructure law, and provides implicit $42 cardinal successful backing to grow high-speed net crossed each states and territories.

In a associated statement, the Senators spoke astir the value of infrastructure and said, “But successful the twenty-first century, infrastructure doesn’t halt astatine roads and bridges–it indispensable see entree to broadband. That’s wherefore we fought to marque definite the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would besides assistance adjacent the integer disagreement successful Virginia and supply entree to affordable, reliable broadband to each country of the Commonwealth.”