Broadband Telecom GIS Specialist and Project Manager Tyler Beekhoo, who has been a consultant for the Mathews Broadband Advisory Board for over two years, developed this map of Mathews that shows current and potential broadband coverage in the county. Each small white dot represents a household that currently has broadband service or access, while each colored dot represents a household that will have access to coverage once various projects in the county have been completed. Those projects include the Open Broadband two-county Virginia Telecommunications Grant partnership with Gloucester (green dots); the Breezeline four-county VATI grant partnership with Mathews, Middlesex, Lancaster and Caroline counties (blue dots); the coverage that will result from the county’s building of two towers—one at the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad building on Cricket Hill Road and the other at Bohannon Fire Station 2 (orange dots); and the expanded coverage that will be possible when repeaters are ins...