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the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Among the 66 proposals Kaine’s office chose - from the 137 that were submitted - was a $23.9 million stimulus loan request from Virginia Broadband to build out its wirelessinternet system to cover more than 240, OpO households and nearly 50,000 businesses in 20 counties between the Blue Ridge and the Chesapeake.
Culpeper-based VABB currently has about 3,200 customers in 17 counties, including Rappahannock. Its system, similar to the one used by PBB, links subscribers with a small roof- or pole-mounted antenna that gets its signal from a similar unit that can be up to a few miles away and is not shielded by terrain or heavy foliage. t
Besides VABB’s proposal to provide “last-mile* broadband coverage to under-served ..areas in Virginia’s Piedmont, Central and Northern
See BROADBAND, Page A5
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