By Sen. Jennifer S. Boysko
THE FOUNDATION of modern life has changed over the past year. Many of us are working from home and many of our kids are attending virtual school.
The pandemic has also highlighted the divide between rural and urban communities when it comes to high-speed broadband internet access.
Everyone deserves access to high-speed internet, and partnerships like the one recently announced by All Points Broadband, Northern Neck Electric Cooperative (NNEC), and Dominion Energy in Virginiaâs Northern Neck are bringing diverse organizations together to tackle this challenge head on.
As the chair of the Broadband Advisory Council, I have worked to support partnerships like this, which will be critical to deploy broadband in some of the most difficult-to-serve regions in our commonwealth.