Virginia Have-Nots Get Wired - Via grants and tobacco settlement money
30th Dec 2005, 16:15 GMT
As mentioned recently, Virginian broadband is either feast or famine; some areas are seeing Fios competition and 15Mbps cable tiers, others are lucky if they have one connectivity option. Parts of six less-wired Virginia counties will receive broadband thanks to a $3 million federal grant, notes the Bristol Herald Courier. The money will link several fiber rings throughout the state, some of which have been built thanks to state tobacco settlement money. Those funds were used to fund a 700 mile fiber deployment, that will bring connectivity to some 700,000 Virginians and 19,000 businesses in five cities, 20 counties, and 56 industrial parks
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