Virginia to receive $5 million to expand high-speed internet access - WWBT

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Virginia is acceptable to get millions of dollars successful national backing to grow high-speed net access.

Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner announced that the commonwealth volition person $5 cardinal arsenic portion of the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Development (BEAD) Program.

“Last year, we passed once-in-a-generation backing for infrastructure projects crossed the country, and we’ve heard from communities crossed the Commonwealth astir the quality these resources volition make, from fixing unsafe bridges to modernizing our section airports,” the Senators 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.”

The assistance volition enactment readying and pre-deployment activities, arsenic they enactment to bring broadband to agrarian and underserved areas successful Virginia.

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