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demand for broadband service should be leveraged to seek expanded service for underserved areas of Rappahannock.

McCarthy said no one should expect that this will result in an immediate expansion of broadband service in Rappahannock, although that is the goal. He said VABB is “a pretty stable, long-term organization that has done this in other areas.”

According to the company's Web site, high-speed Internet is not available for 40 million rural Americans. That is why VABB is deploying what the company calls the largest wireless network in the commonwealth. When completed, it will stretch from the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay, roughly following the Rappahannock River basin, and servicing customers in 25

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